Mark Sykes
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Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician, and diplomatic advisor, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War.
Sykes, c. 1918
Sykes caricatured by Wallace Hester for Vanity Fair, 1912
Riflemen carrying the flag of the Arab Revolt
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Sykes–Picot Agreement
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The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.
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