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,
weak, #colonialist rhetoric. Stop dehistoricizing regions & peoples. #Iraq #Syria” @NewPakistan2020: “The #MiddleEast’s modern borders were drawn by the Wesern powers 100 years ago under the #SykesPicot.”
@BorjeMelin: “#SykesPicot Centenary of diplomatic and colonial adventurism with tragic fall-out. #France #Britain #migrantcrisis” @BenjaminKweskin: “#SykesPicot is dead. When will #EU/#US realize what millions in the region already know to be true?” @MarceloCes: “The #SykesPicot Agreement divided the Ottoman Empire’s vast land mass into British and French spheres of influence. #DigitalDiplomacy” Berzan Qamișlokî: “Sykes Picot Agreement and the Treaty of Sèvres - After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the borders drawn in the Sykes Picot agreement were signed into law with the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. Thisn
treaty originally set aside part of Turkey as Kurdish territory, however this decision protested aggressively by Turkish nationalists, who went so far as to relocate thousands of Turks into Kurdish-majority parts of Turkey. Sykes Picot and the Treaty of Lausanne -In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed by the Allied Powers which amended the previous treaty. Forming the present day Turkey, Lausanne set the northern borders of Syria and Iraq, separating ethnic groups and effectively dashing the Kurdish dream of forming a sovereign Kurdistan. Today, more than 30 million Kurds, and millions of Assyrians, Yezidis and other stateless ethnicities straddle the makeshift borders originally created by Mark Sykes and Francois Picot 100 years ago.”
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”
