You hear a lot today about this treaty, in which the UK and French (and Russian) Empires secretly agreed to divide up the Ottoman Empires last MidEastern regions among themselves. Crucially, the borders between the French and British zones later became the borders between Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. Because those later-independent states had largely arbitrary borders that forced disparate ethnic and religious groups together, and because those groups are still in terrible conflict with one another, Sykes-Picot is often cited as a cause of warfare and violence and extremism in the Middle East. But scholars are still debating this theory, which may be too simple to be true. vox/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 15:03:06 +0000
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