Have you heard about 7 days without a reason to return, but have you heard about 7 days without a reason to retire?

It is in Central Asia!

As long as the bride is not a virgin before marriage, the groom can break off the engagement without reason within 7 days and can still claim back the betrothal gift.

That sounds terrible, isn¡¯t it?

But if I talked about this country where "brides can break off their marriage if they don't have a place", you might not be so surprised.

This country is Turkmenistan, called ¡°Central Asia North Korea.¡±

This time, Aung San Suu Kyi recalls, I spent $700 and the newspaper went to a country closer than North Korea, Turkmenistan.

Even though I have traveled to more than 30 countries, Turkmenistan has refreshed my understanding.

Not to mention anything else, Turkmen marriage customs alone are extremely explosive. However, before talking about its explosive marriage customs, we have to introduce this country.

Why is Turkmenistan called Central Asia?

That has to be said by their president.

If I asked you, the only second post-80s leader in the world, would you know who he is?

I think what you must answer is Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Kim Jong-un, born in 1984, is only 41 years old this year and was elected general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea in 2021.

But the other, you probably don¡¯t know, is Turkmen President Sheldar.

Born in 82 years old, Sheldar was elected president in 2022 when he was only 40 years old.

Since Sherdar's military rank is colonel, we can also affectionately call him "Colonel Xie".

Then, why can Colonel Xie be listed as the post-80s president with General Jin?

Without him, because his father was with him.

Former President of Turkmenistan, Kurban Kulik, is Sheldar¡¯s father.

Is it like North Korea?

The ¡°Tower¡± below is the ¡°Thought Tower of Central Asia¡± ¨C Turkmen Rukhnamata.

The word Ruhnama is made up of the Arabic soul ¨C ¡°ruha¡± ¨C and the Persian book ¡°نامه¡±, which is translated as the Book of the Soul, although the West calls it the ¡°Green Treasure Book¡±.

Because this book is the official ideology of Turkmenistan, and it claims to be the third major scripture of mankind after the Christian Bible and the Islamic Koran.

Its author is Niyazov, the first president of Turkmenistan. As we said, it is the main ideology of Turkmenistan.

Niyazov himself said, "Ruhnama is the latest divine revelation to all mankind, even aliens."

Even in order to show the book to aliens, Turkey was still in Independence Square, building a "flying dish" and putting a giant Rohnam under it.

Not to mention, Turkmenistan, like North Korea, closed the country, and until today, to enter the country, you have to only accompany and limit the number.

When Niyazov looked at me, he clearly said to me:

You don't even want to call me "general" now?

Also due to the extreme closure, the country is still far from the explosion of marriages in modern society.

Let's talk about the first marriage custom that burst: robbing marriage.

You absolutely can¡¯t imagine that here, women, can be robbed.

As long as you have taken the woman back home, then this woman is your wife, and a legal wife.

It¡¯s not a kidnapping, it¡¯s not a bandit, but in Turkmenistan, it¡¯s a marriage.

There is also a special name in Turkish, called "aýdalma", which is translated into Chinese as "rabbing marriage".

To this day, there are only two countries where there are still wedding robberies:

One is Turkmenistan, the other is Kyrgyzstan, and Kyrgyzstan is called Arakachu.

This robbery, which existed 1,500 years ago, was the custom of the Turkish tribe.

If you want to know: why are women robbed as wives? welcome to check out my previous article ¡°Why are women robbed in Kyrgyzstan?¡±

Simply put, because women are private property in Turkic tribes, robbing women from each other became a "reproductive war" among various tribes, and later became a custom.

However, now Turkish robberies are not tribal reproductive warfare, mainly there is no lottery money.

My guide Red Dragon told me: Turkey has a lottery, usually $ 20,000, if you want to marry a college student, the lottery is higher, but as a Turkish man, can not take the lottery, and want to marry a daughter-in-law, what to do?

It can only be robbed, either robbed banks, or robbed women, it is obvious that robbing marriages is more costly, and this is a tradition, the society also acknowledges.

Theft of women, this is the absolute criminal crime in our country, but in Turkey it is a marriage custom.

I was surprised when I heard it for the first time, but the story after the wedding robbery was even more refreshing.

We also have to talk about the second marriage custom: non-annulment of the marriage.

It is a tragedy for a woman to be snatched away by a strange man and become a wife, but if this woman secretly promised someone else before being robbed or even ate a forbidden fruit, then it will be an even greater tragedy.

There is also a popular tradition in Turkey: a bride who is not a virgin can retire for seven days without a reason.

In the Turkish country, there is a special pre-marital test, which is what we called red test in ancient times. Simply put, a white sheet is used to test whether the bride has had pre-marital sex.

If not, the husband can retire.

We guided Red Dragon's neighbor's sister, who was retired for 7 days without a reason because of "marriage inspection", and until today did not marry.

It is contradictory that now Turkish cities after 90, 00, such as I know Red Dragon, Batel and others, marriage views toward Turkey, and we are wide in the north, there is no difference, is also fast 30, not married, is also going to have a lot of men and women friends, for pre-marriage sex, there is no strict prohibition.

This caused a terrible rupture.

On the one hand, the Turkish tribal ransom and practice of marriage, and on the other hand, the openness and sexual liberation of modern society ¨C both marriage concepts exist in Turkmenistan at the same time.

Of the more than 30 countries I¡¯ve visited, Turkmenistan is definitely the most magical reality, full of paradoxes and conflict, but unparalleledly enthusiastic and friendly.

Although it is "North Korea in Central Asia", Turkmenistan is also a paradise on earth.

Oil, 1. 5 dollars to fill up, water and electricity, no money, housing, state allocation, medical care, public medical care, giving birth to a baby, giving subsidies, buying a car, giving subsidies.

What North Korea cannot afford, Central Asia and North Korea have given everything.

Moreover, according to statistics from Trading Economics:, Turkmenistan's per capita GDP in 2024 will be US $17,953.85, equivalent to 120,000 yuan.

How much is North Korea? Even with the highest statistics, it's only $1,700.

Clearly a closed country, clearly a planned economy, why Turkmenistan has become a rich country?

We will answer this question properly next time.