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The Sykes-Picot Agreement: The Agreement that Haunts the Modern Middle East — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Francois Georges-Picot. During the First World War, the Triple Entente was faced with the very real prospect of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Eager to secure their interests in the Middle East, the British and the French drew up the Sykes-Picot Agreement to divide the region in the case of victory against the Central […]