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Main public holidays

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(March 8) * Nowruz (March 21–22) * State Flag and Constitution Day (May 18) *
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(September 27) * Day of Remembrance (October 6) * Day of Neutrality (December 12) *
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Professional holidays

* Memorial Day (January 12) *
Defender of the Fatherland Day Defender of the Fatherland Day (russian: День защитника Отечества ''Den' zashchitnika Otechestva''; kk, Отан қорғаушы күні; tg, Рӯзи Дорандаи Ватан; ky, Мекенди коргоочула ...
(January 28) * Day of Remembrance of National Heroes of Turkmenistan in the 1941-1945 World War (May 9) * Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of
Magtymguly Magtymguly Pyragy ( fa, ''Makhdumqoli Farāghi''; tk, Magtymguly Pyragy; ; tr, Mahtumkulu Firaki; , born Magtymguly, was a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who is considered to be the most famous figure in ...
(May 18–19) * Carpet Day (Last Sunday in May)
Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art
(June 27) * Third Sunday in July – Galla Bayramy (celebration of the wheat harvest) * Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (May 29) *
Border Guards Day Border Guards Day (russian: День пограничника; kz, Шекараны қорғау күні; tg, Рӯзи сарҳадбонони сарҳадӣ; ky, Чек ара кызматы күнү; be, дзень пагранічніка ...
(August 11) * Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power, and Geological Industry (Second Saturday in September) * Turkmen Bakhshi Day (Second Sunday in September) * Day of the Worker in the Organs of National Security (September 30) * Day of the Navy (October 9) * Health Day (First Saturday in November)


Other holidays

* Turkmen Melon Day (Second Sunday in August) * Good Neighborliness Day (First Sunday in December) * Day of Remembrance of the First President of Turkmenistan
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 ...


References

* ''Independent Neutral Turkmenistan: 10 Glorious Years of the Epoch of Turkmenbashi the Great'', Ashgabat, 2001, pp. 49–51 . * ''Turkmenistan to the Heights of the Golden Age'', Ashgabat, 2005, p. 44. * ''Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004'', National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005, pp. 6–7.


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