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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 [ edit ]

• 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)
• Eid al-Fitr ( Shawwal 1)
• Eid al-Adha ( Dhu al-Hijja 10)

Professional holidays [ edit ]

• Memorial Day (January 12)
• Defender of the Fatherland Day (January 28)
• 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 holidays [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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

External links [ edit ]

• Holidays in Turkmenistan