Public holidays in Turkmenistan

Parade during the Independence Day

Public Holidays in Turkmenistan are laid out in the Constitution of Turkmenistan, which acts as a list of nationally recognized public holidays in the country.

Main public holidays

• New Year's Day (January 1)
• International Women's Day (March 8)
• Nowruz (March 21-22)
• State Flag and Constitution Day (May 18)
• Independence Day (September 27)
• Day of Remembrance (October 6)
• Day of Neutrality (December 12)
• Uraza Bayram (Shawwal 1; Gregorian date determined annually by Presidential decree)
• Kurban Bayram (Dhu al-Hijja 10; Gregorian date determined annually by Presidential decree)

Professional holidays

• Memorial Day (January 12)
• Defender of the Fatherland Day (January 27)
• Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (ru: Праздник туркменского скакуна) (27 April)
• Day of Remembrance of National Heroes of Turkmenistan in the 1941-1945 World War (May 9)
• Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of Magtymguly (May 18–19)
• Turkmen Carpet Day (День туркменского ковра) (last Sunday in May)
• Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art ^[1] (June 27)
• Third Sunday in July – Galla Bayramy (celebration of the wheat harvest)
• Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (May 29)
• Border Guards Day (August 11)
• Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power, and Geological Industry (second Saturday in September)
• Turkmen Bakhshi Day (second Sunday in September)
• Day of the Worker in the Organs of National Security (September 30)
• Day of the Navy (October 9)

Other holidays

• Turkmen Melon Day (Second Sunday in August)
• Good Neighborliness Day (First Sunday in December)
• Day of Remembrance of the First President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov

References

• Independent Neutral Turkmenistan: 10 Glorious Years of the Epoch of Turkmenbashi the Great, Ashgabat, 2001, pp. 49–51 (in Russian).
• Turkmenistan to the Heights of the Golden Age, Ashgabat, 2005, p. 44.
• Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004, National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005, pp. 6–7.

Further reading

• Paul Brummell (2005). Turkmenistan. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 48–51. ISBN   978-1-84162-144-9.

External links

• Holidays in Turkmenistan

1. "Turkmenistan: the golden age". www.turkmenistan.gov.tm. Retrieved 7 June 2025.