ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: Turkmenistan's leader has appointed his father to head their country's newly formed supreme representative body, further expanding the older man's clout in the gas-rich Central Asian nation.
President Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 41, named his father, former president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, as chairman of Halk Maslahaty, or People's Council, on Saturday night. State television showed 2,000 members of the council greeting the presidential order with a standing ovation.
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