(from Data Team, The Economist)
Sykes-Picot is officially called the Asia Minor Agreement. It was a secret agreement between Britain and France signed May 16, 1916. This is how the map looked prior to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire which sided with Germany in WWI.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, claims that it's goals are to reverse the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
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