Turkmenistan Health Profile -2002 lecture - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/ns0061/index.htm

Turkmenistan (i/tɜrkˈmɛnɨstĉn/ or i/tɜrkmɛnɨˈstɑːn/; Turkmen: Türkmenistan), formerly also known as Turkmenia (Russian: Туркмения), is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan

*Undergraduate Student, University of Pittsburgh