Dzhuma Durdy Karayev
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Dzhuma Durdy Karayev was a Turkmen
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

 politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR
Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR
The Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR was the ruling communist party of the Turkmen SSR, and a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985 it was led by Saparmurat Niyazov, who in 1991 renamed the party to the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, which is no longer a communist party...

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Karayev came to power on 14 December 1958, succeeding Sukhan Babayev
Sukhan Babayev
Sukhan Babayev served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from October 1951 until December 1958....

. He served until his death on 4 May 1960. Balysh Ovezov
Balysh Ovezov
Balysh Ovezovich Ovezov , served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR twice....

became the next General Secretary.
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