#SykesPicot Agreemet: Lines in the sand
“New borders are being drawn in blood...”
People in the Middle East use social media to share their thoughts on the Sykes-Picot agreement one hundred years later.
@RubaAlHassani: “On #SykesPicot centennial, let’s move past this tired,
Florent Mikhail Sadiku: “Sykes-Picot Agreement undermined 40 million Kurds and robbed them from their sovereign right to exist as an independent state ... It’s time to re draw the borders, the old borders are gone and the new borders are being Drawn in Blood.”
Syrian war - News, Info, Media: “... 100 years since the signing of a document which went down in history under the title “the Sykes–Picot Agreement” . It defined the borderlines between the zones into which the Asian territories of the Ottoman Empire were divided after the World War I. Today hardly anybody shows interest in this topic. It is regarded mostly as a closed case file, or a historical fact. But if you take a close look at the current developments in the Middle East, you will notice the echo of that deal. Threads of history do not break but stretch through the decades. #MiddleEast#Syria#Iraq”
