The is the highest national order of

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 ...

. It can only be awarded to the current

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

, and only once in the president's tenure, for "outstanding achievements in domestic and foreign policies." The order was created for

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 profes ...

by Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament in 2007,Закон «Об учреждении ордена Туркменистана «Watan»
/ref> and Berdimuhamedow was subsequently made the first ever recipient on his 50th birthday.

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