Iraq and ISIS Video terminology explained - the Sykes-Picot Agreement

ISIS videos have repeatedly made reference to the end of the Sykes-Picot Agreement - but what are they talking about?

Sykes-Picot Agreement

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Last Updated 5-6-2014

Sykes-Picot Agreement, (May 9, 1916), secret convention made during World War I between Great Britain and France, with the assent of imperial Russia, for the dismemberment of theOttoman Empire. The agreement led to the division of Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, andPalestine into various French- and British-administered areas. The agreement took its name from its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and François Georges-Picot of France.

Its provisions were as follows: (1) Russia should acquire the Armenian provinces of Erzurum, Trebizond (Trabzon), Van, and Bitlis, with some Kurdish territory to the southeast; (2) France should acquire Lebanon and the Syrian littoral, Adana, Cilicia, and the hinterland adjacent to Russia’s share, that hinterland including Aintab, Urfa, Mardin, Diyarbakır, and Mosul; (3) Great Britain should acquire southern Mesopotamia, including Baghdad, and also the Mediterranean ports of Haifa and ʿAkko (Acre); (4) between the French and the British acquisitions there should be ... (150 of 400 words)

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