He has raced cars on the edge of fiery craters, gunned down targets while riding a bicycle, and even gathered wheat in a combine harvester.
It was only a matter of time before Turkmenistan’s president took a spin in a fighter jet. And it finally happened – or state media said it did, at any rate – over the weekend.
The stunt has been cast by the state propaganda machine as a hands-on exercise in weapons-tes