In 1916 Britain and France agreed to division of the land of the Khilafah. The Skyes-Picot agreement was a secret agreement between the agreement of the UK and France with the assent of Russia defining their respective spheres of influence and control in the muslim world after the expected downfall of the Uthmani Khilafah in world war 1. The agreement was concluded on 16 May 1916 by the French diplomat Francois Georges-Picot and Briton Mark Skyes. Under the agreement, Britain was allocated control of Jordan, Iraq and a small area around Haifa. France was allocated control of South-eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. They were left free to decide on state boundaries within the area and it was their arbitrary decisions which fashioned tge map of the muslim world as we know it today.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:05:45 +0000
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