Turkmen women are complaining that the police are taking away their driving licences on spurious grounds, amid reports that the Central Asian country has quietly banned women from driving altogether.

Members of Iraq's Shia Turkmen community have been the targets of brutal persecution by so-called Islamic State (IS). One woman, who asked not to be named, told BBC Turkish's Mahmut Hamsici about ...

In April, Turkmen authorities began cracking down on salons, enforcing a ban on a range of beauty services.

The women’s 59kg weightlifting event has concluded. Chinese Taipei’s Kuo Hsing-Chun is crowned the winner of the competition ...

A journalist was seized by security forces in Turkmenistan as she was due to travel to Switzerland for an international human rights award ceremony, a group of NGOs said on Thursday, calling for her ...