Monday, 16 May 2016

Why Sykes-Picot got it all wrong (Jeremy Wilson, Al Jazeera)

Soldiers on horseback in the Iraqi desert during the Mesopotamian campaign, circa 1916 [Getty]

In May 1916, Britain, France and Russia reached a secret agreement which came to be known by the names of its French and British architects: Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/sykes-picot-wrong-160516070435974.html

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