Modern Era · Middle East · Politics
1916
Sykes-Picot carves up the Middle East
May 16, 1916
In a London drawing room, a British colonel and a French diplomat drew lines across a map of the still-standing Ottoman Empire, assigning future colonies and protectorates to each power. The secret agreement leaked after the Russian Revolution and gave Arabs the first clear evidence of European betrayal. The lines are still there.
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