The unintended consequences of Sykes-Picot are still being felt today
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1 min readMay 15, 2016
Die unbeabsichtigten Konsequenzen von Sykes-Picot sind heute immer noch spürbar
“Lots of countries have strange borders,” says Rami Khouri of the American University of Beirut. “Yet for Arabs, Sykes-Picot is a symbol of a much deeper grievance against colonial tradition. It is about a whole century in which Western powers have played with us and were involved militarily.”
Source: The Economist, 14.05.2016
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