Public holidays in Turkmenistan
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The Constitution of Turkmenistan says what public holidays in Turkmenistan there are.
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Main
change- 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)
- Moving Holiday Eid al-Fitr
- Moving Holiday Eid al-Adha
Professional
change- Memorial Day (January 12)
- Defender of the Fatherland Day (January 27)
- 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)
- Carpet Day (Last Sunday in May)
- Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art (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)
- Health Day (First Saturday in November)
Other
change- 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
change- 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
change- Paul Brummell (2005). Turkmenistan. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 48–51. ISBN 978-1-84162-144-9.