The following eleven points included the formal agreements between Great Britain, France and Russia. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Agreement took place during the First World War and aimed at other objectives in the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and was part of a series of secret agreements that reflected on its partition. The first negotiations that led to the agreement took place between 23 November 1915 and 3 January 1916, during which British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot signed an agreed memorandum. [3] The agreement was ratified by their respective governments on 9 and 16 May 1916. [4] Unfortunately, the attention paid to this subject has not given rise today to works based on new archival and documentation documents, and, with a few exceptions, it is a mass of journalistic and allegedly analytical speculation in the media and very pretious speculation. Suffice it to mention the strange idea of renaming the aforementioned agreement as “Sazonov-Sykes-Picot agreements”. One of the most ardent authors of this idea, who often appears on television and calls the October 1917 Revolution a “traitor”, strongly opposes the Bolsheviks for publishing “these secret minutes supposed to patriotically support the state… and announced their silly policies. If “silly politics” means the policy of supporting national liberation movements, it must be kept in mind that it was aimed precisely at western powers whose hostile actions in the Straits region have always feared Russia (and unfortunately still have reason to fear). The Sykes-Picot Agreement (officially the 1916 agreement in Asia Minor) was a secret agreement reached during world war I between the British and French governments on the division of the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
Russia also participated in the talks. 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]:57-60 In another sign of British discontent with Sykes-Picot, Sykes wrote in August a “Memorandum on the Asia Minor Agreement,” which was synonymous with support for its renegotiation, to make the French understand that they “are doing well, that is, they should change policy if they cannot make military efforts consistent with their policy.”