[EVENT] Turkmenistan, Through the Years of Lead (2026-2027, Part I)

The Republic of Turkmenistan is a proud and glorious republic, one that stands through times of hardship after 1991, and one that stands to endure the same thing as it went into the Roaring Twenties of the 21st Century.

***2026***

Though the Republic prospered under the guidance of ***Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov***, few were expecting difference under his son, ***Serdar Berdymukhamedov***, and yet they fell into his vision of nation’s building. Though his cabinet was his father’s with only few exceptions, ***Serdar*** offered a different vision, graduated from agriculture university and an engineer, he refocused the nation’s investment and economy to mechanized the crop plants and non-crop plants, in an attempt to diversify the economy from heavy reliance on natural gas and oil. And though it marred with inefficiencies and alleged corruption deals, the process was more or less smooth.

The same cannot be said on military side, whose, in spite of heavy investment to modernize the equipment, increase the salaries, and expand the size, the SoL of the soldiers’ families cannot be said the same for they were affected with the economic downturn. Which in turn has motivated those within the military, including one ***Major General Batyr Gundogdyev*** of the Air Force, whose branch are unseen in a heavy investment where it primarily aimed at the army. As a result, he has began to conspire with some officers within Navy and Air Force, and likewise, procured important contacts within the populace, such as young students and what left of news media in the country.

***2027***

Though economic modernization was kept on by the government, the process was increasingly marred with corruption and alleged incompetence done to extend funds, which, when you take into account of the collusion of some of the officers within the military, proved to be an undoing of dual consequences. Unfortunately, the consequences happened sooner than later, with the radical branch of students starting it when they bombed a gas station and a supermarket frequented by foreign tourists, of which 113 casualties emerged from the situation. The incident unfolded deeper as the military and police were forced to take action, though the Air Force decided to use it as a pretext and using their aircraft to intimidate the army, and students seized the media with pyrrhic victory, costing a lot of their own in the process. As situations unfolded, though ***Serdar*** claimed the military and the government is on the way to quell the demonstrations, he was positioned at Palace.

Thus, an easy place to be bombed by the Air Force. It was not an easy decision, but ***Major General Batyr*** considered it a decision that cannot be taken lightly. And he hoped it would be resulted in a proper transition of republican form.

He was wrong.

Though both Serdar was confirmed to died, his father weren’t confirmed in the same way as his son. His presence was unknown, and the army soon lost their momentum as Air Force and the young democrats seized the momentum. What follows after was a failure after failure that resulted in an even brutal regime.