Turkmenistan's leader ordered on Tuesday the removal of satellite dishes from apartment blocks in a move that could restrict access to foreign television channels in the reclusive Central Asian state. President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, whose word is final in the former Soviet republic of 5.4 million, instructed his government to install cable television to replace the dishes that crowd the walls and roofs of many buildings in Ashgabat.
"Numerous television aerials installed on the roofs and facades of houses reflect negatively on the capital's architectural appearance," Berdymukhamedov said in comments published by state newspaper Neitralny (Neutral) Turkmenistan. Satellite dishes battle for roof space on three- and four-storey apartment blocks in the older neighbourhoods of Ashgabat, where residents say they can tune in to more than 700 channels.
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