[Israel opens its resident embassy in Turkmenistan] Financial Associated Press, April 21-Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen, who is visiting Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, presided over the inauguration ceremony of the Israeli Embassy in Turkey on 20 April local time, and said that the opening of a permanent embassy is a milestone in the development of relations between the two countries. Israel and Turkmenistan formally established diplomatic relations in 1993, but Israel only established a temporary diplomatic mission in Ashgabat. Turkmenistan has not yet opened an embassy in Israel.