Скачать или смотреть The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916

Referred to as the "Project" by the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in his letters to the French diplomat Paul Cambon, the Sykes-Picot Agreement envisioned a partition of the Ottoman territories in the Middle East between France and Great Britain.

The agreement also contained sections concerning the development of harbors and railway infrastructure under the direction of the two Great Powers, as well as the allocation of land for semi-autonomous Arab states.

Transcript of Sir Edward Grey's letters : https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresou...

0:00 - First Letter
0:41 - Second Letter Intro
1:39 - Condition 1 : Arab States
2:21 - Condition 2 : Direct Administrations
2:39 - Condition 3 : Palestine
2:55 - Condition 4 : Haifa, Acre and Cyprus
3:21 - Condition 5 : Alexandretta and Haifa
4:34 - Condition 6 : Railways
4:53 - Condition 7 : More Railways
5:35 - Condition 8 : Turkish Customs
6:13 - Condition 9 : Cession Rights
6:38 - Condition 10 : Concerning a Third Power
7:08 - Condition 11 : Arab Boundaries
7:21 - Condition 12 : Arms Control
7:31 - Concluding Remarks