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Fergana The uprising was an event involving ethnic clashes that occurred in 1989 in the Fergana Valley of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union. Uprising It intensified tensions particularly between the Meskhetian Turks and Uzbeks and was suppressed by the intervention of the Soviet military. This event is regarded as one of the most striking examples of ethnic tensions that emerged during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Fergana Valley is one of the most den