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Sykes-Picot Agreement
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Sykes–Picot Agreement
The
Sykes–Picot Agreement
, officially known as the
Asia Minor Agreement
, was a secret agreement between the governments of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and the
French Third Republic
, with the assent of the
Russian Empire
, defining their proposed
spheres of influence
and control in the
Middle East
should the
Triple Entente
succeed in defeating the
Ottoman Empire
during
World War I
. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916, the agreement was signed on 16 May 1916, and was exposed to the public in the
The Manchester Guardian
on November 26, 1917.
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