The agreement effectively divided the Ottoman provinces outside the Arabian Peninsula into territories of control and influence of the United Kingdom and France. The countries controlled by Great Britain and France were divided by the Sykes-Picot line. [5] The agreement that gave Britain control of present-day southern Israel and Palestine, Jordan and southern Iraq, as well as another small area including the ports of Haifa and Acre, to allow access to the Mediterranean. [6] [7] [8] France should control southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. [8] George Curzon stated that the major powers remained committed to the Organic Regulation Agreement, regarding governance and non-interference in the affairs of the Maronite, Orthodox, Druze and Muslim Christian communities concerning the Beirut Vilayet of June 1861 and September 1864, adding that the rights granted to France in today`s Syria and parts of Turkey under Syke-Picot , are incompatible with this agreement. [78] Hussein`s letter of February 18, 1916, McMahon appealed for 50,000 pounds of gold, more weapons, ammunition and food, saying Feisal was waiting for „no less than 100,000 people“ to arrive for the planned revolt and McMahon`s response of 10 March 1916 confirming British approval of the applications and concluding the ten letters from correspondents. In April and May, Sykes discussed the benefits of a meeting in which Picot and the Arabs participated to network each other`s wishes. At the same time, logistics have been dealt with in the context of the promised revolt, and there has been growing impatience with what Hussein should do. Finally, at the end of April, McMahon was informed of the terms of Sykes-Picot and Grey and agreed that they would not be disclosed to the Arabs. [54] [55]:57-60 In the chain of agreements between France, Russia and Great Britain, Russian demands were first confirmed: France confirmed their agreement on 26 April and Britain on 23 May with formal sanctions on 23 October. The Anglo-French agreement was confirmed in an exchange of letters on 9 May and 16 May. [37] On 18 September Faisal arrived in London and on the 23rd he met at length with Lloyd George, who explained the memory aid and the British position.

Lloyd George stated that he was „in the position of a man who had inherited two groups of commitments, those of King Hussein and those of the French,“ Faisal noted that the agreement „seemed to be based on the 1916 agreement between the British and the French.“ Clemenceau responded about Memory Aid, refusing to travel to Syria and saying that the case should be left to the French to directly manage Fayçal. In April 1920, the San Remo conference distributed Class A mandates on Syria to France and Iraq and Palestine to Britain. The same conference ratified an oil agreement reached at a London conference on 12 February, based on a slightly different version of the Long Berenger agreement, previously signed on 21 December in London. BTW – contrary to popular belief – the Sykes-Picot agreement, which appears in the title of Cockburn`s article, was never implemented (at least not as sykes and Picot had intended). The agreement is seen by many as a turning point in Western and Arab relations. She denied the promises made by the United Kingdom to the Arabs[9] concerning a national Arab homeland in the region of Syria in exchange for British support for the Ottoman Empire. The agreement was made public with others on 23 November 1917 in Moscow by the Bolsheviks[10] and repeated on 26 November 1917 in the British Guardian, so that „the British were displaced, the Arabs appalled and the Turks happy.“ [11] [12] [13] The legacy of the agreement has caused too much discontent in the region, particularly among the Denarabern, but also among the Kurds, who were denied an independent state. [14] [15] [17] In the Constantinople Agreement of 18 March 1915, after the start of naval operations ahead of the Gallipoli campaign, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazoznov wrote to the French and British ambassadors and claimed Constantinople and the Dardanelles.