Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR was the ruling communist party of the Turkmen SSR, and a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In its later years it was led by Saparmurat Niyazov, who in 1991 renamed the party to the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan. See also: Politics of Turkmenistan. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.