The Fergana pogroms happened in 1989, after riots broke out between the Meskhetian Turks exiled in Uzbekistan and the native Uzbeks. Hundreds of Meskhetian Turks were killed or injured, around 1,000 properties were destroyed and tens of thousands of Meskhetian Turks fled to other Soviet republics.
The Fergana pogroms happened in 1989, after riots broke out between the Meskhetian Turks exiled in Uzbekistan and the native Uzbeks. Hundreds of Meskhetian Turks were killed or injured, around 1,000 properties were destroyed and tens of thousands of Meskhetian Turks fled to other Soviet republics.
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