Han Ahmedowiç Ahmedow was Prime Minister of Turkmenistan

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...

 from December 1989 to May 1992. During his time in office, Turkmenistan became an independent country when the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 collapsed in 1991. Afterwards, Ahmedow became Railways Minister and then ambassador to Turkey

Turkey

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. In 2002 he was placed under internal exile, where he remained until he died of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 in Serdar

Serdar

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, in western Turkmenistan, in late 2006. According to relatives of Ahmedow, the government did not allow him to receive medical treatment in Ashgabat.