The agreement, which grants the UK control over areas that roughly cover the coastal strip between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, Jordan, southern Iraq and another small area that included the ports haifa and Acre, was allocated to allow access to the Mediterranean. France has taken control of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Russia received Istanbul, the Turkish route and Armenia. The control powers have been left free to set national borders in their territories. New negotiations were expected to refer the international administration to discussions with Russia and other powers, including Hussein bin Ali and Sharif of Mecca. After the total collapse of the Ottoman government, its representatives signed in 1920 the Treaty of Sevres, which would have divided much of the territory of present-day Turkey between France, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy. Turkey`s war of independence forced Western European powers to return to the negotiating table before the treaty could be ratified. The Western Europeans and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey signed and ratified in 1923 the new Treaty of Lausanne, which replaced the Treaty of Sevres and agreed on most territorial issues. An unresolved issue, the dispute between the Kingdom of Iraq and the Republic of Turkey over the former province of Mosul, was then negotiated under the aegis of the League of Nations in 1926. The British and French divided Greater Syria into the Sykes-Picot agreement. Other secret agreements have been concluded with Italy and Russia. [7] The Balfour Declaration encouraged the international Zionist movement to work for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. While Russia was part of the Triple Agreement, it also had war agreements that prevented it from participating in the partition of the Ottoman Empire after the Russian Revolution.
The Treaty of Sevres officially recognized the new mandates of the League of Nations in the region, the independence of Yemen and British sovereignty over Cyprus. The Sykes-Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asian Agreement, was a secret agreement between Britain and France in 1916 and approved by the Russian Empire. The agreement defined their areas of consensual influence and control in Southwest Asia. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Agreement would succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The negotiations that led to the agreement took place between November 1915 and March 1916 and were signed on 16 May 1916. The agreement was made public in 1917. The agreement is always mentioned when one considers the region and its current conflicts. In April 1915, Russia supported the formation of the Armenian provisional government under the Russian-Armenian governor Aram Manukian, the leader of the resistance in Van`s defense. The Armenian national liberation movement hoped that Armenia could be liberated from the Ottoman regime in exchange for the support of the Russian army. However, the Tsarist regime had a secret war agreement with the other members of the Triple Agreement on the final fate of several anatolic territories, the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
[12] These plans were published in 1917 by Armenian revolutionaries to gain the support of Armenian public opinion. [14] The Russians, the British, the Italians, the French, the Greeks, the Assyrians and the Armenians claimEd Anatolia, based on a collection of war promises, military actions, secret agreements and treaties. According to the Treaty of Sevres, everyone except the Assyrians would have fulfilled his wishes. Armenia was to receive a significant part of the East, known as Wilsonian Armenia, which stretched as far as Lake Van and as far as Mush, Greece was to retain Smyrna and the surrounding area (and probably have reached Constantinople and all of Thrace, which was managed as a controlled and demilitarized internationally), Italy should have control of the south-central and west anatolia coast around Antalya. , France, which must preserve the area of Cilicia, and Great Britain, which retains the entire region to the south of Armenia.
