Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2007
Abstract
The death of Turkmenistan's "irreplaceable" president, Saparmurat Niyazov course. While analysing current Turkmen elites and the transition, it is clear that there was not much space for any kind of struggle among them.
The new regime represented by the tandem of Acting President Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov and the Chief of the Presidential Guard Akmurat Rejepov agreed on the power division quite peacefully. While no rivaling constellation is likely to appear, the main question for the future is the stability of this tandem.