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Turkmenistan: Information on the religious composition of the country, percentage of Sunnite and Shi'ites

Publisher Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 October 1992
Citation / Document Symbol TMT11860
Cite as Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Turkmenistan: Information on the religious composition of the country, percentage of Sunnite and Shi'ites, 1 October 1992, TMT11860, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac0422.html [accessed 23 May 2013]
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Information on the religious composition of Turkmenistan could not be found in the sources currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa, other than that contained in: Caratini, Roger. 1989. Dictionnaire des nationalités et des minorités en U.R.S.S. (Paris: Larousse) which you have already consulted. According to this source, "Les Turkmènes sont musulmans sunnites, de rite h nafite." (188)

References

Caratini, Roger. 1989. Dictionnaire des nationalités et des minorités en U.R.S.S. Paris: Larousse.

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