Watan Order
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The Watan Order is the highest national order of Turkmenistan
. It can only be awarded to the current president
, and only once in the president's tenure, for " outstanding achievements in domestic and foreign policies."
The order was created for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow by Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament in 2007, and Berdimuhamedow was subsequently made the first ever recipient on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
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...
. It can only be awarded to the current president
President of Turkmenistan
-First Secretaries of the Turkmen Communist Party:*Ivan Mezhlauk *Shaymardan Ibragimov *Nikolay Paskutsky *Grigory Aronshtam...
, and only once in the president's tenure, for " outstanding achievements in domestic and foreign policies."
The order was created for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow by Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament in 2007, and Berdimuhamedow was subsequently made the first ever recipient on the occasion of his 50th birthday.