TURKMEN PRESIDENT GRANTS CITIZENSHIP TO 13,000 PEOPLE
By empty (8/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed decrees granting Turkmen citizenship to 13,245 people, mainly former Tajik citizens who fled Tajikistan during that country\'s 1992-97 civil war. The report noted that most are ethnic Turkmen. Others covered by the decrees include residents of territory recently returned to Turkmenistan from Uzbekistan.Visit also
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