Relationship dossier

Germany Turkmenistan

Relationship assessment

Practical bilateral cooperation, with limited clarity about its overall scope

Germany toward Turkmenistan

+20

Germany has supported technical cooperation in Turkmenistan, including work on vocational education and sustainable development, and has engaged the Turkmen government through bilateral economic cooperation mechanisms.

Turkmenistan toward Germany

+20

Turkmenistan has engaged with Germany through bilateral economic cooperation mechanisms, including government-level cooperation on trade and investment. The scale and implementation of that cooperation are unclear.

Overall relationship

+20

The relationship has concrete cooperative features, particularly technical cooperation and government-level economic engagement. Available knowledge supports a working partnership, but not a conclusion that cooperation is especially broad or intensive.

How to read these scores

Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.

−100
Extreme sustained hostility
−50
Substantially adversarial
0
Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
+50
Substantially cooperative
+100
Exceptionally close sustained partnership

“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.

Relationship context

Knowledge coverageLimited

Overview

Germany and Turkmenistan maintain a working relationship that includes bilateral economic cooperation and German technical cooperation in areas such as vocational education and sustainable development. The relationship has practical cooperative elements, but its scope and implementation are not clear enough to characterize it as a close partnership.

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