Sykes Pico agreement
The CYPRUS PICO agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor pact, is an agreement to divide the territory of the Middle East after the First World War, after the First World War, after the First World War defeated the Ottoman Empire, with the consent of the Russian Empire and the secret agreement between the British Empire and France. The treaty negotiated between November 1915 and March 1916. On May 16, 1916, the treaty was concluded. The agreement divided the Arabian region of the Ottoman Empire into the future British and French regions. The agreement was created after French diplomat Françoise Georges Pico, the negotiating negotiator, and British diplomat Marc Sykes. The Russian Empire rarely interfered with the Sykes-Pico pact, but when the Bolsheviks unveiled the agreement in October 1917, "England was embarrassed, Arabs were amazed, Turkey was delighted".