Turkmenistan's Attempted Coup: Repercussions and U.S. Concerns

Publication Date: March 2003

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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Turkmenistan's President Saparamurad Niyazov announced on November 25, 2002, that assassins had just tried to kill him, and alleged that several prominent expatriate oppositionists had been aided at least tacitly by neighboring countries in hatching the attempted coup. The United States, international human rights organizations, and others have raised strong concerns about apparent human rights abuses committed by the Turkmen government in pursuing the coup plotters. This report may be updated. Related products include CRS Issue Brief IB93108, Central Asia's New States, and CRS Report 97-1055, Turkmenistan.