Which of the following events led to ethnic conflict in the Balkans in 1989?

Serbia’s efforts to increase its control over other groups within Yugoslavia intensified ethnic tensions in the Balkans around 1989. Those tensions later contributed to Yugoslav republics declaring independence and to violent conflicts. Greece and Turkey’s conflict over Cyprus occurred earlier, while the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict was in the Caucasus, not the Balkans.

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