“Let this wonderful holiday establishing the principles of friendship and peacefulness, reflecting our boundless pride in our great Motherland fill the world with the light of goodness and humanity!” wished President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in his address congratulating the Turkmen people on the National Flag Day.
The National Flag Day celebrations held throughout the country illumined the hearts of our compatriots with triumphant joy, pride and love for the homeland and brought the effulgent light of wise truths, harmony of eternal values and inexhaustible power of the lofty spiritual values of the Turkmen people.
This year the National Flag Day celebrations took place in a special atmosphere. We all have recently witnessed the ceremony of President of inauguration of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who had been elected by the will of the Turkmen people. As is known, an overwhelming majority of Turkmen citizens cast their votes for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his strategy of progressive reforms and innovative development. We will always remember the President of Turkmenistan swearing allegiance to the Fatherland and the Turkmen people and bowing his head to the National Flag of Turkmenistan. Following the national tradition, the newly-elected leader of the Turkmen state kissed the sacred banner and brought it to his forehead.
This ritual that shows the reverent attitude of the Turkmen people to the Flag as the highest value and shrine once again spotlighted the firm commitment of our people to their spiritual and moral traditions, the ancestors’ precepts and the lofty ideals that we inherited from them.
To worship the national shrines such as the Flag, Emblem and Anthem means to worship the heroic deed of the national heroes, our courageous forefathers who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland, the legendary historical personalities of the defenders of the Turkmen land, our beloved Motherland. And it means to believe deeply in the people and their creative power.
The National Flag of independent neutral Turkmenistan was established 20 years ago. The Turkmen leader noted that this significant date played a special role in the life of our courageous people enshrining the national symbols that embody the fundamental principle of friendship, brotherhood and peacefulness. For twenty years the country under the banner of the high spirit has been building its new history and paving the path to the happy, great future of the nation gaining new achievements and enhancing its reputation worldwide for being a prosperous country with the unique model of independent development.
“To date the wisdom of the Turkmen people that a man is known by his deeds and the country – by its flag have become a reality,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the initiator of the progressive initiatives to address pressing issues and global problems of our times.
The country gains the prestige and recognition worldwide after its people have come to believe in their predestination. The moral characteristics of Turkmen people have always been good neighbourliness, peacefulness and equal communication with other nations and peoples. Humanity and openness of our people are embodied today in the Turkmen leader’s foreign policy of Turkmenistan that has taken it’s a worthy place under its green banner in the world community.
The green flag of the Motherland proudly flying in the boundless sky not only embodies the people’s centuries-old dream and symbolizes the national shrines. Also it evidences the establishment of the lofty concepts of patriotism, morality and spiritual revival in our minds.
The Turkmen people revered their flag in different periods of their history. This good tradition is being maintained today. Symbolising sacred independence and the epoch of great reforms and prosperity, stability and wellbeing of the united Turkmen people our green flag is regarded as a shrine, a national pride. It inspires people to gain great accomplishments deeds, stiffens their spirit, arouses and deepens the love and devotion to the homeland, the Motherland in every citizen.
After Turkmenistan gained the status of permanent neutrality, two olive branches symbolizing the centuries-old traditions of peacefulness of the Turkmen people were featured on the National Flag forever. There is no precedent in the world history for this fact of depicting the attributes of the unity and, cohesion and peace in the national symbols. And this is another reason for taking pride in the National Flag, our Motherland.
The giant green cloth of the National Flag of Turkmenistan is flying on the 133-meter flagpole in Ashgabat. It symbolizes the outstanding achievements our country has gained on the path of peace, constructive endeavours and progress.
This year’s festivities marked by the National Flag Day celebrations and the ceremony of inaugurating the national leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who is leading with confidence the country along the way of revival and progress became an adornment of the spiritual life of the country and was given special meaning.
The attributes of the National Flag that root deeply in the world outlook of our people convey their right to sovereign development and historical creation, political self-determination and national social and economic model. Nowadays the National Flag of Turkmenistan as a symbol of the policy of humanity and peacefulness of our country flies in front of the headquarters buildings of the United Nations and other major international organisations in many countries of the world and in towns and villages throughout Turkmenistan.
In addition to the function of the official national symbol, the National Flag performs the important spiritual and patriotic mission. The ideas and views of the people it embodies are to foster self-esteem in Turkmen citizens, unite them and charge them with the creative energy to implement the human potential in order to achieve individual success as well as attain the universal, national goals. Therefore, this symbol of the statehood has a special place in the minds of our people, our contemporaries embodying the indissoluble link between the historical roots and great future of the Motherland aspiring for peace, prosperity and progress.
The national symbols of Turkmenistan harmoniously combine the national motifs and spiritual values with the universal ones; it has a great depth of meaning and manifests the people’s vision of their future.
Our comprehension of these sacred symbols, having absorbed the dominant national ideas of the epoch, has significantly broadened in a new historical reality. This is particularly the fundamental principle of the state policy “a state for the people” implying the level of relationship between the state and its citizens when the conditions conducive to their self-realization and dignified life are created.
Throughout the age-old long history our valorous ancestors brought fame to the Turkmen nation under the banners permeated with the high spirit of courage and freedom, bravery and heroism. The history of the Turkmen flag as well as the history of the Turkmen people originates in remote ages. In the antiquity and Middle Ages the Turkmen people founded many big and small states that had their own symbols and heraldry. One of the most popular symbols known in Turkmenistan since the Bronze Age was the combination of the star and the crescent.
The oldest carpet patterns, five stars with to the crescent as the symbol of a new life and two olive branches as a manifestation of the status of neutrality of Turkmenistan secured in the Special Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly are a combination of the ancestors’ traditions and national identity and a reflection of the present day in the history of our people.
This is so because the tradition in the modern Turkmen society is not an immobilized dogma but a blueprint for action and creation, an appeal to cultivate the best qualities such as moral purity, strength of spirit, thirst for knowledge and labour and self-perfection in oneself.
The modern age has put the formation of new ideology through reinterpreting the national spiritual traditions in the light of the intention to put lofty ideals and goals in practice on the agenda of the Turkmen society.
The love for and selfless devotion to the Motherland are the basic philosophical categories underpinning the world outlook and views of the Turkmen people. The foundation of the ideology of the epoch of great reforms is the essence of the people’s comprehension of themselves as a monolithic nation, a driving force of the historical processes.
It is the spiritual development strategy urging to study the rich history of the Turkmen people, know and value the national heritage, be faithful to moral guidelines and contribute in a worthy manner to replenishing present and future achievements of the Motherland.
Constructive labour and high spirituality are the key concepts of this strategy aimed at revealing the inexhaustible potential of the people, every individual and the state.
The day of February 19 is not only the holiday of the national unity and selfless love for the Motherland, but also the celebrations in honour of the establishment of the ideals of kindness, peace, equality, justice and cooperation. The greatness of this holiday is it encompasses all the best things worthy of respect and pride that the Turkmen people have and indissolubly bound our ancestors’ aspirations for the freedom of the Motherland and our modern achievements and successes and the ambitious goals that we set for ourselves. Under the banner of the unity the specific purport is given to our everyday work and the solemnity of victories and accomplishments to our holidays.
A call to new triumphant achievements that President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is leading his people by personal example of selfless service to the people and the Fatherland, patriotism and respect for national shrines is heard in this symphony.
Solemnly and widely celebrating as the big friendly family the holidays like the National Flag Day we give a new meaning to the national symbols, enhances pride of our citizens in their country and establish the lofty patriotic ideals in the society. These symbols like a guiding star illuminate the way of our people in such a complicated world in the 21st century showing the right directions and true landmarks of our irreversible movement toward great goals!
The National Flag Day celebrations held throughout the country illumined the hearts of our compatriots with triumphant joy, pride and love for the homeland and brought the effulgent light of wise truths, harmony of eternal values and inexhaustible power of the lofty spiritual values of the Turkmen people.
This year the National Flag Day celebrations took place in a special atmosphere. We all have recently witnessed the ceremony of President of inauguration of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who had been elected by the will of the Turkmen people. As is known, an overwhelming majority of Turkmen citizens cast their votes for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his strategy of progressive reforms and innovative development. We will always remember the President of Turkmenistan swearing allegiance to the Fatherland and the Turkmen people and bowing his head to the National Flag of Turkmenistan. Following the national tradition, the newly-elected leader of the Turkmen state kissed the sacred banner and brought it to his forehead.
This ritual that shows the reverent attitude of the Turkmen people to the Flag as the highest value and shrine once again spotlighted the firm commitment of our people to their spiritual and moral traditions, the ancestors’ precepts and the lofty ideals that we inherited from them.
To worship the national shrines such as the Flag, Emblem and Anthem means to worship the heroic deed of the national heroes, our courageous forefathers who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland, the legendary historical personalities of the defenders of the Turkmen land, our beloved Motherland. And it means to believe deeply in the people and their creative power.
The National Flag of independent neutral Turkmenistan was established 20 years ago. The Turkmen leader noted that this significant date played a special role in the life of our courageous people enshrining the national symbols that embody the fundamental principle of friendship, brotherhood and peacefulness. For twenty years the country under the banner of the high spirit has been building its new history and paving the path to the happy, great future of the nation gaining new achievements and enhancing its reputation worldwide for being a prosperous country with the unique model of independent development.
“To date the wisdom of the Turkmen people that a man is known by his deeds and the country – by its flag have become a reality,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the initiator of the progressive initiatives to address pressing issues and global problems of our times.
The country gains the prestige and recognition worldwide after its people have come to believe in their predestination. The moral characteristics of Turkmen people have always been good neighbourliness, peacefulness and equal communication with other nations and peoples. Humanity and openness of our people are embodied today in the Turkmen leader’s foreign policy of Turkmenistan that has taken it’s a worthy place under its green banner in the world community.
The green flag of the Motherland proudly flying in the boundless sky not only embodies the people’s centuries-old dream and symbolizes the national shrines. Also it evidences the establishment of the lofty concepts of patriotism, morality and spiritual revival in our minds.
The Turkmen people revered their flag in different periods of their history. This good tradition is being maintained today. Symbolising sacred independence and the epoch of great reforms and prosperity, stability and wellbeing of the united Turkmen people our green flag is regarded as a shrine, a national pride. It inspires people to gain great accomplishments deeds, stiffens their spirit, arouses and deepens the love and devotion to the homeland, the Motherland in every citizen.
After Turkmenistan gained the status of permanent neutrality, two olive branches symbolizing the centuries-old traditions of peacefulness of the Turkmen people were featured on the National Flag forever. There is no precedent in the world history for this fact of depicting the attributes of the unity and, cohesion and peace in the national symbols. And this is another reason for taking pride in the National Flag, our Motherland.
The giant green cloth of the National Flag of Turkmenistan is flying on the 133-meter flagpole in Ashgabat. It symbolizes the outstanding achievements our country has gained on the path of peace, constructive endeavours and progress.
This year’s festivities marked by the National Flag Day celebrations and the ceremony of inaugurating the national leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who is leading with confidence the country along the way of revival and progress became an adornment of the spiritual life of the country and was given special meaning.
The attributes of the National Flag that root deeply in the world outlook of our people convey their right to sovereign development and historical creation, political self-determination and national social and economic model. Nowadays the National Flag of Turkmenistan as a symbol of the policy of humanity and peacefulness of our country flies in front of the headquarters buildings of the United Nations and other major international organisations in many countries of the world and in towns and villages throughout Turkmenistan.
In addition to the function of the official national symbol, the National Flag performs the important spiritual and patriotic mission. The ideas and views of the people it embodies are to foster self-esteem in Turkmen citizens, unite them and charge them with the creative energy to implement the human potential in order to achieve individual success as well as attain the universal, national goals. Therefore, this symbol of the statehood has a special place in the minds of our people, our contemporaries embodying the indissoluble link between the historical roots and great future of the Motherland aspiring for peace, prosperity and progress.
The national symbols of Turkmenistan harmoniously combine the national motifs and spiritual values with the universal ones; it has a great depth of meaning and manifests the people’s vision of their future.
Our comprehension of these sacred symbols, having absorbed the dominant national ideas of the epoch, has significantly broadened in a new historical reality. This is particularly the fundamental principle of the state policy “a state for the people” implying the level of relationship between the state and its citizens when the conditions conducive to their self-realization and dignified life are created.
Throughout the age-old long history our valorous ancestors brought fame to the Turkmen nation under the banners permeated with the high spirit of courage and freedom, bravery and heroism. The history of the Turkmen flag as well as the history of the Turkmen people originates in remote ages. In the antiquity and Middle Ages the Turkmen people founded many big and small states that had their own symbols and heraldry. One of the most popular symbols known in Turkmenistan since the Bronze Age was the combination of the star and the crescent.
The oldest carpet patterns, five stars with to the crescent as the symbol of a new life and two olive branches as a manifestation of the status of neutrality of Turkmenistan secured in the Special Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly are a combination of the ancestors’ traditions and national identity and a reflection of the present day in the history of our people.
This is so because the tradition in the modern Turkmen society is not an immobilized dogma but a blueprint for action and creation, an appeal to cultivate the best qualities such as moral purity, strength of spirit, thirst for knowledge and labour and self-perfection in oneself.
The modern age has put the formation of new ideology through reinterpreting the national spiritual traditions in the light of the intention to put lofty ideals and goals in practice on the agenda of the Turkmen society.
The love for and selfless devotion to the Motherland are the basic philosophical categories underpinning the world outlook and views of the Turkmen people. The foundation of the ideology of the epoch of great reforms is the essence of the people’s comprehension of themselves as a monolithic nation, a driving force of the historical processes.
It is the spiritual development strategy urging to study the rich history of the Turkmen people, know and value the national heritage, be faithful to moral guidelines and contribute in a worthy manner to replenishing present and future achievements of the Motherland.
Constructive labour and high spirituality are the key concepts of this strategy aimed at revealing the inexhaustible potential of the people, every individual and the state.
The day of February 19 is not only the holiday of the national unity and selfless love for the Motherland, but also the celebrations in honour of the establishment of the ideals of kindness, peace, equality, justice and cooperation. The greatness of this holiday is it encompasses all the best things worthy of respect and pride that the Turkmen people have and indissolubly bound our ancestors’ aspirations for the freedom of the Motherland and our modern achievements and successes and the ambitious goals that we set for ourselves. Under the banner of the unity the specific purport is given to our everyday work and the solemnity of victories and accomplishments to our holidays.
A call to new triumphant achievements that President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is leading his people by personal example of selfless service to the people and the Fatherland, patriotism and respect for national shrines is heard in this symphony.
Solemnly and widely celebrating as the big friendly family the holidays like the National Flag Day we give a new meaning to the national symbols, enhances pride of our citizens in their country and establish the lofty patriotic ideals in the society. These symbols like a guiding star illuminate the way of our people in such a complicated world in the 21st century showing the right directions and true landmarks of our irreversible movement toward great goals!