A Turkmen passport is issued to the citizens of Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia 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 . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

 for the purposes of international travel. Since July 2008, biometric passport

Biometric passport

A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport or ePassport, is a combined paper and electronic passport that contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of travelers...

 has been introduced, making Turkmenistan the first country in ex-USSR mid-Asia region to issue an ICAO compliant biometric passport. Current passports of Turkmen citizens are valid for travel abroad and back home up to 10 July 2013 http://www.turkmenistan.ru/?page_id=3&lang_id=en&elem_id=13207&type=event&highlight_words=passport&sort=date_desc