Turkmen President Signs Decree Announcing Competition for “Golden Age of Turkmenistan” Award

Turkmenistan's President has signed a decree announcing a competition for the “Golden Age of Turkmenistan” award. The competition is open to workers in literature, culture and the arts, other creative people, amateur young singers and gifted children. According to the decree, its aim is to identify talented creative people who express the nation's culture, cultural heritage and ancient values through accomplished works, to select and encourage the best of them, to enrich Turkmen literature with large-scale works, and to further develop national art.

Under the decree, winners will be determined in designated fields. Within the competition, three contests were announced: “Yaňlan, Diýarym!” for amateur young singers, “Çalsana, bagşy!” for dutar-playing bagshy and musicians, and “Garaşsyzlygyň merjen däneleri” for gifted children.

The full text of the decree will be published in the newspaper “Edebiýat we sungat”.