The patrol police before warned the women drivers to drive the car, but now the Turkmen women are afraid to drive their vehicles.
Authorities banned women to drive the car in the middle of December 2017 regardless of existence of driving licences. In January 2018, the patrol police started seizing women’s driving licenses and sending cars to the parking lot.
Он децембер 5, the Minister of the Interior, Isgender Mulikov, informed the head of state that, according to statistics, most of the road accidents in the country are due to the fault of female drivers or with their participation. The president instructed the minister to "rectify the situation".
Sources also emphasize that new bans are introduced only in order to close the main problems of the agency, namely, low professional training of traffic police and total corruption in the service.
Turkmenistan earlier imposed a total ban on exploitation of the black vehicles in the country.
