Turkmenistan: A dog’s life The president regularly casts blame for Turkmenistan’s troubles on his cabinet of lickspittle loyalists. Public arrests like this week's, however, are rare. Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Sep 17, 2019 Head of the pack Nine days after Amandurdy Ishanov was fired as Turkmenistan’s Trade and Foreign Economic Relations Minister, he reappeared on state television. It was