Beset by economic hardship, enterprising Turkmens have found a way to supplement...
ALMATY - Beset by economic hardship, enterprising Turkmens have found a way to supplement their incomes - smuggling towels and bed linen into neighboring Kazakhstan.
Dressed in traditional Central Asian garb such as headscarves and long skirts, these women arrive on almost every flight from Ashgabat to Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest city. Turkmenistan, where president Kurbanguly Berdimukhamedov rules with an elaborate personality cult, is one of the world’s most closed countries.
“My daughter trades at a bazaar and I bring her goods little by little... which I buy from our stores,” said a Turkmen woman picking up bags from the luggage belt in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s commercial hub. “There were parcels weighing over 50-60 kilograms each,” said Marina Zabara, a complaints inspector at the airport.
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