Under these agreements, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab vilayets should be under the mandate of these powers. Their representatives, the British Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot of France, made history as authors of the first version in a hurry to share the Asian part of Ottoman Turkey in a colonial way. The Sykes-Picot Agreement (officially the 1916 Asia Minor Agreement) was a secret agreement made during World War I between the British and French governments on the division of the Ottoman Empire between the Allied powers. Russia was also aware of the talks. Loevy makes a similar point with regard to sections 4 to 8 of the agreement and refers to the British and French who practiced “Ottoman colonial development as insiders” and that this experience served as a roadmap for subsequent war negotiations. [51] while Khalidi highlighted Britain`s and France`s negotiations on the homs-Baghdad railways in 1913 and 1914, as well as their agreements with Germany in other regions, as a “clear basis” for their subsequent spheres of influence under the agreement. [52] This year was the centenary of the agreement, which sparked debates in many countries related to the events of the First World War and the crisis that hit the Middle East region today. The thesis of the “collapse of the Sykes-Picot system”, which set boundaries that ignored the historical, geographical and demographic realities of the region, has gained in importance. .

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