en Public holidays in Turkmenistan

Public Holidays in Turkmenistan are laid out in the Constitution of Turkmenistan, which acts as a list of nationally recognized public holidays in the country.

Main public holidays

Memorial Day (January 12)
Defender of the Fatherland Day (January 27)
Day of Remembrance of National Heroes of Turkmenistan in the 1941-1945 World War (May 9)
Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of Magtymguly (May 18–19)
Carpet Day (Last Sunday in May)
Day of Turkmen Workers of Culture and Art (June 27)
Third Sunday in July – Galla Bayramy (celebration of the wheat harvest)
Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (May 29)
Border Guards Day (August 11)
Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power, and Geological Industry (Second Saturday in September)
Turkmen Bakhshi Day (Second Sunday in September)
Day of the Worker in the Organs of National Security (September 30)
Day of the Navy (October 9)
Health Day (First Saturday in November)

Independent Neutral Turkmenistan: 10 Glorious Years of the Epoch of Turkmenbashi the Great, Ashgabat, 2001, pp. 49–51 (in Russian).
Turkmenistan to the Heights of the Golden Age, Ashgabat, 2005, p. 44.
Statistical Yearbook of Turkmenistan 2000-2004, National Institute of State Statistics and Information of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 2005, pp. 6–7.