Serdar Berdimuhamedow

About

Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 22 September 1981) is a Turkmen politician serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 2022. Berdimuhamedow had previously served in several other positions within the government of his father, Gurbanguly, the long-standing authoritarian ruler of Turkmenistan. The father and son entered into a power-sharing arrangement in 2022, through which they jointly rule a totalitarian dictatorship in Turkmenistan.
In 2021, he became one of several deputy chairmen in the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. The next year, he won 73 percent of the vote in the country’s presidential election, considered to be a sham election, succeeding his father’s 18-year-long authoritarian tenure as president and making Turkmenistan the first modern country in Central Asia to be ruled by a dynastic system.

== Early career and education ==
Serdar Berdimuhamedow was born on 22 September 1981 in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR. He studied at Secondary School No. 43 in Ashgabat from 1987 to 1997. Between 1997 and 2001, he studied at the Turkmen Agricultural University, graduating as an engineer-technologist.
From July to November 2001, he worked in the Directorate…