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Turkmenistan Mobilizes Civil Servants to Pick Cotton; Farmers Underpaid for Their Harvest

News2026-10-16

Turkmenistan’s 2026 cotton-picking campaign began on September 9, but turkmen.news observers have already documented widespread labor violations in every region. In Ahal, Dashoguz, Lebap and Mary provinces, civil servants are being sent to the fields and forced to pay for replacement pickers. Some of the pickers are children. Here are the key facts as of…

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