Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France, to which the Russian Empire assented. The agreement defined their mutually agreed spoils of war and control in Southwestern Asia. In 1919, the British and French implemented the 1916 agreement and divided the Arab world into nation states. The Sykes-Picot Treaty divided the Ottoman Empire into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Iraq and assigned those countries to the winners of WWI, except for the …
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