Uzbeks and Meskhetiian Turks Clash (1991)


Description: Ethnic conflicts among Uzbeks and Meskhetiian Turks in the city of Orsh, Kirghiziia, June 18, 1990. The film pins the blame for the conflict on the 1921 agreement with Turkey dividing Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, rather than on Soviet-era nationality policies. From the documentary Mine Field of Perestroika.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000)

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