Turkmenistan’s longtime leader has unveiled a giant gilded statue of a dog on a busy traffic circle in the capital Ashgabat. Depicted standing proudly on a plinth, the gold-coated canine is an ...

Turkmenistan's president has bestowed his favourite dog breed with the highest honour - a giant golden statue. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov unveiled the 19ft (6m) statue of the Alabay dog in the ...

The president of Turkmenistan has unveiled a giant statue to his favorite dog. The 19-foot (6 metre) sculpture, covered entirely in gold leaf, honours the Alabay or Central Asian shepherd ...

Turkmenistan is dotted with gold-leaf statues to Berdymukhamedov's eccentric predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, who died in 2006, but this is the first such monument to the current leader.

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ... Now the Central Asian strongman's love of horses has been immortalized with a gold-leaf statue of Berdymukhamedov on horseback in the ...

ASHGABAT (Reuters) - A rotating gold statue of Turkmenistan's former leader is to be removed from the centre of the capital, state media said on Saturday, as his successor chips away at the late ...

The answer, if Turkmenistan is anything to go by, is a 21-metre marble and gold leaf monument ... central Asian country has revealed its first statue to its dominant president, former dentist ...

The isolated Central Asian state of Turkmenistan on Monday unveiled a massive gold statue of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov riding a horse in a move that echoes his predecessor's cult of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A rotating gold statue of Turkmenistan's former leader is to be removed from the centre of the capital, state media said ...

(AFP) Ashgabat, Turkmenistan: The isolated Central Asian state of Turkmenistan on Monday unveiled a large gold statue of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov riding a horse, in a move echoing his ...