Asylgul Abdurekhmenova

Asylgul Abdurekhmenova (Kyrgyz: Асылгүл Абдурахманова; romanised: Asylgül Abdurakhmanova) (born 1953) is a politician from Kyrgyzstan.

Abdurekhmanova was born in Bosteri, a village in Issyk-Kul Region. She graduated from the Przevalsk Pedagogical Institute in 1974, and became a secondary school teacher in the village of Chon Urukty, where she remained until 1978. That year she took a job at the Komsomol, which marked the beginning of her political career. From 1979 until 1987 she held a variety of positions in the district branch Communist Party of Kirghizia, later moving to the Kara Suu and Jany-Jol districts of Osh Region. From 1987 until 1996 she held a variety of administrative posts in the municipal administrations of Osh and Karakol;^[1] she also served as mayor of Karakol for a time.^[2] In 1996 she was named Minister of Labor and Social Protection, in which position she remained until 1998,^[1] when she was replaced by Imankadyr Rysaliev.^[3] Issues which she faced during her time in office included the influx of refugees into Kyrgyzstan from Tajikistan during the civil war there^[4] and a spat with Russia over footage of a Kyrgyz children's home which was shown on Russian television.^[5]