| 1 | Its closest relatives are Turkish and Turkmen. | |
| 2 | Located near the tower is a saints' cemetery, where Turkmen say that God receives their prayers. | |
| 3 | To most Turkmen the internet is a luxury due to its high cost, a strategy used by the government to dissuade people from using it. | |
| 4 | According to Turkmen legend, the tower represents the gift of a rich man to his daughter, who died as a young woman. | |
| 5 | "Al-Zaidi's shoe is the most famous shoe in the whole world, " said Fawzi Akram, a Turkman lawmaker loyal to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. |