According to correspondents of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan”, a new campaign to demolish residential house is still underway in Ashgabat.
Two-storey apartment blocks are being pulled down between Turkmenbashi avenue and Andalib streets, not far from Nogin street.Five buildings have already been demolished and ten more are expected to be knocked down.
Мany inhabitants refuse to move out as the new apartment blocks which were offered as alternative accommodation, have not been built yet. However, the municipal authorities and the police are exerting tough pressure on the residents.
Representatives of the khyakimlik’s office (mayor’s office) respond to outraged residents that the latter will have to temporarily stay with their family members or rent apartments.
The news outlet ANT and Radio “Azatlyk” have previously reported that the apartment blocks located on Viktor Nogin street had been knocked down.
According to Radio “Azatlyk”, senior citizens are denied alternative accommodation as compensation to the demolished property on the grounds that 1 person is entitled to 9 square meters and some old people occupy 50 meters though they could stay with their children or grandchildren.
According to ANT, the houses are knocked down as the hotel “Nissa” located nearby is scheduled to be extended.
As “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” has previously reported the following houses are being demolished in Ashgabat:
in the residential district “Khitrovka” at the extension of the driveway along Khodzh Akmet Yasavi (formerly, Griboyedova streets) and Gogol streets;
in the village of Gaiynsyz-oba located on the motorway to Annau;
the houses located along the road leading to the “Old flea market” in Choganly;
two-storey apartment blocks on Nogina street;
privately-owned houses in the residential district “8 March” and on the territory of the former collective farm “Leningrad”, which are now part of Ashgabat”, have been almost completely knocked down.