Turkmenization is the set of domestic policies the Niyazov administration used in Turkmenistan from 1991 to December 2006 to force ethnic minorities to adopt Turkmen culture. Those who resisted the state-sponsored cultural transformation were often deported.[1]
Antoine Blua of Radio Free Europe defined Turkmenization as the "policy of the Turkmen government targeting the education, employment, and religion of all of the country's non-Turkmen ethnic groups."[2]
^Central Asia: 'Fathers are crying in Turkmenistan, and children are crying here' EurasiaNet
^Turkmenistan: State Interfering In Religious Life Of Ethnic Uzbeks Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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