Turkmenistan: Alcohol Retail Suspended In Ashgabat For One Month
Alcohol stores have been closed down and alcoholic products habe been taken off the shelves of ordinary shops in the capital of Turkmenistan ahead of a major international athletics competition next month.
Merchants at several stores said authorities had ordered alcohol sales be halted until October, after the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games conclude. The competition in Ashgabat, the country’s capital, takes place between September 17 and 27.
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has made sports and physical fitness a top initiative and has launched a programme to make the country tobacco-free by 2025.
