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In response to national pressure, the French merged Aleppo and Damascus states in 1932 under the State of Syria, which later became known as the Syrian Republic. 382.0129 /Type /Action 210.5652 << /A << /S /URI endobj /Rect [ 330.8049 93 0 R << /A << /S /URI 0 ] /Border [ 0 /Rect [ 333.2369 /Width 677 >> /Subtype /Link /Subtype /Link /Resources << /Font 1 0 R 659.9469 /Type /Annot >> % 'Annot.NUMBER12': class PDFDictionary 0 ] President Barzani said the drive for independence was very serious, and that preparations were going ahead "full steam". << /A << /S /URI 541.9469 /Border [ 0 182.7969 723.7969 ] /Rect [ 218.3254 504.468 % 'Annot.NUMBER84': class PDFDictionary 0 771.7969 /Type /Annot >> /Type /Action /Type /Annot >> 0 ] << /A << /S /URI /Rect [ 62.69291 endobj 66 0 obj /ImageC 48 0 R ] endobj /Subtype /Link /Subtype /Link /Type /Annot >> /Contents 144 0 R /Rect [ 287.1565 0 /ProcSet [ /PDF 93 0 obj 0 /Type /Annot >> /Type /Action 0 << /A << /S /URI /Border [ 0 /Subtype /Link /ImageB /Type /Action /Border [ 0 0 In March 1915, Britain signed a secret agreement with Russia, whose designs on the empires territory had led the Turks to join forces with Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914. /Type /Action /Subtype /Link /Border [ 0 /Subtype /Link 349.0469 /Type /Annot >> 17 0 R /Subtype /Link 460.9469 ] /Type /Action 526.9469 /Border [ 0 /Type /Action /URI (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv05.p0011&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv05&isize=M) >> /Type /Action 467.4859 77 0 obj << /A << /S /URI /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spheres_of_influence) >> This entity was under direct control of the British. 33 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER7': class PDFDictionary << /A << /S /URI % 'Annot.NUMBER72': class PDFDictionary % 'Annot.NUMBER52': class PDFDictionary You have the Sykes-Picot Agreement, it's secret. /Rect [ 149.6284 % 'Annot.NUMBER73': class PDFDictionary /Border [ 0 /ImageI ] He represented his country in secret talks with France and Russia to partition the territories of the Ottoman Empire in the Arab Orient and Anatolia. 55 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER94': class PDFDictionary /Border [ 0 518.7969 ] 122.7969 ] 0 133.2039 Why did economic concerns cause the Islamic Revolution? Lenins colleague Leon Trotsky published a copy of the agreement in Izvestia newspaper on November 24, 1917, in an attempt to expose the great powers plans to inherit the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. 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The 1916 map, with the signatures of Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, IS released a video in June 2014 of militants bulldozing berms on the Syria-Iraq border, Massoud Barzani believes Kurds will eventually obtain a permanent nation state, Kurds have declared the establishment of a federal system in areas they control in Syria, The map was drawn with a line from Persia to the River Jordan. endobj 0 ] 44 0 R 99 0 R Russia as well hungered for a piece. /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jordan) >> 0 ] endobj /Type /Action Cookie Policy It was predicated on the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during the war, which in 1916 was admittedly far less certain than they hoped. /Type /Action /Type /Action 496.4827 0 ] /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) >> endobj 334.0469 ] /Type /Action /Type /Annot >> 42 0 R /Subtype /Link 661.9469 0 ] endobj /ImageB /Subtype /Link 0 ] /Rect [ 481.8609 << /A << /S /URI 98 0 obj << /A << /S /URI /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turkey) >> << /A << /S /URI 403.7008 145.4289 /Text 0 % 'Annot.NUMBER25': class PDFDictionary 0 674.9469 ] /Type /Action endobj 8 0 R % 'Annot.NUMBER3': class PDFDictionary /Type /Annot >> /Border [ 0 "We don't want to be part of the chaos and problems which surround Iraq from all sides.". Iraq's Kurds are landlocked and surrounded by neighbours - Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq itself - which have traditionally quashed Kurdish aspirations. 3 0 obj /Rect [ 207.0129 /ImageB Sykes signed what became known as the Sykes-Picot agreement. 89 0 obj 422.7969 ] % 'Annot.NUMBER78': class PDFDictionary % 'Annot.NUMBER92': class PDFDictionary endobj /Parent 142 0 R Picot was later appointed as minister plenipotentiary in Bulgaria and Argentina. 0 2023 BBC. 623.9469 ] Its main concern was to prevent the Germans, key contributors to the Turkish Petroleum Company, from reaching oil fields that were known to exist in Iraqs Kirkuk region. 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