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The Sykes-Picot agreement turns 100 this week. Named after its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the secret wartime deal proposed dividing the Middle East between Britain and France, down an extraordinary line
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/sykes-picot-blame-middle-east-problems-160516083606123.html
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