Below is a list of leaders of present-day Turkmenistan since the establishment of Turkmen SSR in 1925.

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (1925–1991)

First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan (1990–present)

Status
  Denotes Acting President
Symbols

C Constitutional referendum

Died in office

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Elected Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Saparmurat Niyazov
(1940–2006)
1990 2 November 1990 21 December 2006[†] 16 years, 49 days CPT
(until Dec. 1991)
1992 DPT
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
(1957–)
21 December 2006 14 February 2007 55 days DPT
(until 2013)
2 2007
2012
14 February 2007 19 March 2022 15 years, 33 days
2017 Independent
3 Serdar Berdimuhamedow
(1981–)

2022

19 March 2022 Incumbent 2 years, 39 days DPT

Timeline

Serdar BerdimuhamedowGurbanguly BerdimuhamedowSaparmurat NiyazovMuhammetnazar GapurowBalysh OvezovJumadurdy KarayevSuhan BabayevShaja BatyrovMikhail FoninYakov ChubinAnna MuhamedovYakov PopokGrigory AronshtamNikolay PaskutskyShaymardan IbragimovIvan Mezhlauk

National Leader

On 21 January 2023, President Serdar Berdimuhamedow appointed his father, former President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan with the title "National Leader" (Turkmen: Milli Lider).[4][5][6][7]

See also

References