Sykes-picot accord a pivot of history

THE Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret 1916 convention between Britain and France, with assent from Russia, determining how to divide the Arab Middle East after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. It heavily influenced modern Middle Eastern bor-ders but sparked long-lasting regional resentment. The effects of this accord are influencing events in the Middle East even more than a hundred years after it was signed in 1917. This accord was in fact signed in 1916 in the middle of World War One. Britain and France carved up the defeated Ottoman Empire. France grabbed Syria and Lebanon and Britain took Iraq, Jordan, Haifa, Acre and Palestine was placed under international administration a phrase that became a festering wound for the poor displaced people of Palestine. The Arabs were promised independence but were betrayed by the powers that be. For over a century these borders have existed enforced by mandates, troops and imposed monarchs. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan are in fact British inventions. The borders of the present Middle East were demarcated during WW! By a British called Mark Sykes and a Frenchman known as Francois Picot and these two individuals divided the entire Middle East one of the most volatile regions of the world into different nation states that cut through ethnic and religious groups. This accord, later kwon as the Sykes-Picot Treaty, was signed by Britain and France on 16th May 1916 and became the basis on which the Middle East was shaped for over a century. Even after a century the Middle East suffers from the consequences of this treaty and many Arab leaders and intellectuals keep blaming the present violence in the Middle East from the conditions in Palestine to the rise of the extremely violent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIL or Daesh on the Sykes-Picot treaty. The mighty Ottoman Empire lasted for over centuries that is from 1516 to 1924 but in its last days just before the final collapse it had lost control over m