Major General
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Akmurad Nazarovich Kabulov ( tk, Akmyrat Nazarowiç Kabulow, russian: Акмурад Назарович Кабулов) is a
Turkmen
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* Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages
Ethnic groups
* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...
general and politician.
Biography
He was born in 1942 on the Bolshevik collective farm of the Moscow Raion of the
Lebap Welayaty. In 1963 he graduated from the Turkmen Agricultural Institute, specializing in animal husbandry. From 1968 to 1970 she studied at the
Higher School of the KGB (now the FSB Academy) in
Moscow
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. Then he worked as the head of the
Chardzhou Department of the
National Security Committee of Turkmenistan (known as the KNB, which is the successor organization to the Soviet
KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
), and then as the First Deputy Chairman of the KNB. From 1992 to 1999, he served as Head of the
State Border Service of Turkmenistan
The State Border Service (SBS) ( tk, Döwlet Serhet Gullugy, DSG; russian: Государственная пограничная служба, ГПС) also commonly known by its paramilitary force as the Turkmen Border Troops ( tk, Türkmenistan S ...
and concurrently as the Commander of the Turkmen Border Troops. He was the first head of this agency. At the same time, he became a member of the
National Security Council of Turkmenistan. In 1995, he hosted a summit of the
Council of Commanders of the CIS Border Forces in Ashgabat, signing an agreement on cooperation in the protection of external borders. On 23 March 1999, he was dismissed from office "for serious shortcomings and omissions in work, failure to take exhaustive measures to strengthen military personnel, and weakening of exactingness towards subordinates."
Downfall
After the events of
11 September
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and the
defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan, President
Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; tk, Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, in Cyrillic: Сапармырат Атаевич Ныязов (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Turkmenbashi, was a Turkmen politician who rule ...
began to remove witnesses to the drug trade, with a "purge" being carried out in the KNB that saw dozens of officers involved in drug trafficking on behalf of Niyazov receiving many years of prison sentences. Kabulov, who knew about all the crossings of the Turkmen border by drug couriers, was also detained. In December 2002, he was arrested on charges of complicity in the assassination attempt on President
Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov; tk, Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, in Cyrillic: Сапармырат Атаевич Ныязов (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Turkmenbashi, was a Turkmen politician who rule ...
in November 2002. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
After serving his term of imprisonment and exile, he settled in
Ashgabat
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. He is married with two sons.
Awards
He is a recipient of the following awards:
* Medal "Edermenlik" (1993)
* Medal "For Love of the Fatherland" (1996)
*
Order of Turkmenbashi (1998)
See also
*
Begench Beknazarov
Begench Amandurdievich Beknazarov ( tk, Begenç Amandurdiýewiç Beknazarow; russian: Бегенч Амандурдыевич Бекназаров) was a military officer in the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, who was sentenced to life in 2005 for ...
*
Boris Shikhmuradov
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People
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* Boris (surname)
* Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his d ...
*
Batyr Berdiýew
Batyr Ataýewiç Berdiýew (born 3 October 1960) is a Turkmen former politician, who served as the foreign minister of Turkmenistan from 2000 to 2001. He also worked as an ambassador.
Political career
From 1990 to 1991, he was a correspondent ...
References
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Living people
Turkmenistani generals
1942 births
People from Lebap Region
FSB Academy alumni