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The '''Sykes-Picot Agreement''' was a secret treaty made in 1916 between [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Britain]] and [[French Republic|France]] during the [[First World War]] to divide the territories of the [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] between themselves when the war was over. The two architects of this treaty, Briton [[Mark Sykes]], and Frenchman [[Francois Georges-Picot]], made this treaty with little regard to what the native peoples of the region wanted, and deliberately betrayed their Arab allies to carve up the region into colonies. Although the Sykes-Picot Agreement would be superseded by the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] made at the [[San Remo conference]] after the war, the artificial lines drawn on a map tearing through ethnic and [[Religion|religious]] communities made by these two [[Imperial core|western]] diplomats would become the basis for the borders of the modern [[Middle East]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Al Jezeera|title=A century on: Why Arabs resent Sykes-Picot|url=https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html}}</ref> | The '''Sykes-Picot Agreement''' was a secret treaty made in 1916 between [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Britain]] and [[French Republic|France]] during the [[First World War]] to divide the territories of the [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] between themselves when the war was over. The two architects of this treaty, Briton [[Mark Sykes]], and Frenchman [[Francois Georges-Picot]], made this treaty with little regard to what the native peoples of the region wanted, and deliberately betrayed their Arab allies to carve up the region into colonies. Although the Sykes-Picot Agreement would be superseded by the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] made at the [[San Remo conference]] after the war, the artificial lines drawn on a map tearing through ethnic and [[Religion|religious]] communities made by these two [[Imperial core|western]] diplomats would become the basis for the borders of the modern [[Middle East]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Al Jezeera|title=A century on: Why Arabs resent Sykes-Picot|url=https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html}}</ref> | ||
== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||