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Part Two: Turkmenbashi: The Dictator Who Declared Himself Jesus

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Turkmen Boschie

In 2006, Turkmen Boschie declared the first Saturday in November to be health day. He also required that doctors swear an oath now on the runama rather than the Hippocratic oath. On December 31, 2006, Supremorat Nia Zov died of heart failure. The book Inside Central Asia sums up his legacy.

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