The Ministry of Justice of Turkmenistan () regulates the activities of the country's justice bodies. Since its inception in 1993 (two years after Turkmenistan declared independence from the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
), the ministry provides legal support to the state, and performs other tasks assigned by the Law of Turkmenistan to ensure the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the Turkmen citizen. It was originally established on 6 September 1972 as the Justice Ministry of the
Turkmen SSR
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Turkmenistan, the Turkmen SSR, TuSSR, Turkmenistan, or Turkmenia, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union located in Soviet Central Asia, ...
. In 2003, President
Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006) was a Turkmenistani politician who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the Secretary (title), first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenist ...
ordered the Ministry of Justice to be renamed as the Ministry of Adalat. With ''Adalat'' being the Turkic word for justice, the change in terminology was intended to convey fairness, honor, and order within the ministry's affairs. The Ministry of Justice was also given new responsibilities that included inventorying all state-owned and private properties and overseeing the lawyers, notaries, and civil-registration offices in Turkmenistan.
The Ministry of Justice publishes texts of some laws on its website.
Structure
Central Apparatus:
* Main Department of Legislation
* Legal Aid Department
* Department of International Legal Relations and Registration of Public Associations
* Financial and Economic Department
Justice system:
* Regional offices
*
Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan
*
Supreme Court of Turkmenistan
* Central Registry Office Archive
* Courses on training specialists in international arbitration
The total number of units of the justice agencies of Turkmenistan is 156, including the 46 units of the Central Office of the Ministry of Justice.
List of ministers
* Tagandurdy Halliev (1993–1999)
* Gurban Mukhammet Kasimov (1999–2003)
* Taganmyrat Gochyev (2003–2005)
* Asyrgeldi Gulgarayev (2005–2007)
* Myrat Garryyew (2008–2012)
* Begench Charyev Shadurdyevich (2012–2013)
* Begmyrat Muhammedov
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* Merettagan Taganov (2021-present)
See also
*
Justice ministry
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
*
Politics of Turkmenistan
References
External links
Official Website(in Turkmen)
Official Website(in Russian)
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...
Justice
In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Inst ...