The Republican Party of Turkmenistan ( tk, Türkmenistanyň Respublikan partiýasy) is one of several

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that have been outlawed within

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

. Leaders of the exile-based RPT include

Nurmuhammet Hanamow Nurmuhammet Çaryýewiç Hanamow (Russian: Нурмухаммед Чарыевич Ханамов, ''Nurmukhammed Charievich Khanamov'', born 1 January 1945 in Tejen, Ashkhabad Oblast, Turkmen SSR) is a Turkmen politician. Although he served as t ...

who went into exile in 2002 and Annadurdy Hajyýew, whose sister

Ogulsapar Myradowa Ogulsapar Muradova ( Turkmen: Огулсапар Мурадова; 1948 — 2006) was a Turkmen human rights activist and Radio Free Europe journalist. She was the sister of Annadurdy Hajyýew, a leader of the exiled Republican Party of Turkmenis ...

died in a Turkmen prison in September 2006. The latest opposition party, RPT operates in

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- since all opposition is banned within Turkmenistan, it was forced to form and operate from abroad.

Turkmen in exile

There are two major groupings of Turkmen in exile. The first are opposition or dissidents, usually of a democratic bent. The second are exiled Turkmen politicians, often former high-ranking government officials who were incriminated in Niyazov's alleged attempted murder in November 2002, reformists of varying stripes.Turkmen political exiles may return after hard-line ruler's death
RIA Novosti, December 22, 2006. With the death of

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 ...

on December 21, 2006, some thought the situation might change, possibly opening for the expansion of multiple parties within the nation, but such hopes did not materialize, as Niyazov's successor

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957), also known as Arkadag (Cyrillic: Аркадаг, "protector"), is a Turkmen politician who served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022. A dentist by profe ...

made no substantial changes to the country's system, with the

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remaining the ruling party and only Niyazov's cult of personality being reduced.

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Turkmen in exile

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