How can a nation which holds the country sacred and sincerely believes that one who dies for his country is immortal not be brave?

How can a man who rides horses, learns to fight at four or five years of age and is trained for war not be brave?

How can our nation not be brave and self-sacrificing, when all our books, epics and talks are related to the homeland and bravery?

The vizier of Baly Beg in the epic of Görogly said to his Soltan, “My Soltan, if you want the Türkmen to be slaves, be sure that the first thing that you should do is to take them off their horses.”

In the end the enemy understood this.

They managed to make Türkmens dismount and took away our horses at the end of the last century.

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My Beloved Türkmen Nation!

Türkmen people are hard-working.

Anyone who flies over Türkmenistan in a plane, from that bird’s-eye view, will see that a great number of cities were built in ancient times in all corners of the country.

If you look from above, you can see fertile lands, agricultural lands. Wherever you look, you can see irrigation canals.

Today, we cultivate approximately two million hectares of the Türkmen land. But, our ancestors cultivated more than that. Irrigation canals, dams, man-made pools, and artesian wells refresh our territory in Kesearkaç, Balkan, Dehistan,