"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong."
- Lord Edward Cecil
- Lord Edward Cecil
Ottoman Empire
- “The sick man of Europe”: Ottoman Empire breaks up and becomes Turkey
- Precipitated by the actions of Colonial Powers
- French and British divide up the former Ottoman territories into mandates
- Suez Canal and oil are the reasons for their interest
- Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916, gave most of the territory to Britain
- Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Palestine to Br.
- Syria and Lebanon to French
- They set up Arab governments in all mandates except Palestine
- Precipitated by the actions of Colonial Powers
- French and British divide up the former Ottoman territories into mandates
- Suez Canal and oil are the reasons for their interest
- Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916, gave most of the territory to Britain
- Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Palestine to Br.
- Syria and Lebanon to French
- They set up Arab governments in all mandates except Palestine
Question: What if the Ottoman Empire never broke up and had rather become Turkey?