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Resentment over Sykes-Picot Deal Still Drives Turkey Foreign Policy
[AnNahar] Resentment over the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britannia and La Belle France that carved up the Middle East from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire remains, 100 years later, a major factor in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's foreign policy. The May 1916 accord, signed by two British and French diplomats as defeat began to loom in World War I for Germany and its allies, created spheres of influence in the Ottoman-ruled Middle East which to a large extent helped define the borders of modern states including Syria, Leb, Iraq and Israel. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-15 |
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