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Independence of Iraqi Kurdistan would further complicate Sykes-Picot instability: Turkey's AKP

Published by Hurriyet on Thu, 02/04/2016 - 16:10

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has suggested that the prospective independence of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) would "further complicate the picture" in a region destabilized by the "artificial borders of the Sykes-Picot agreement" of 1916.

Russia shows what it can do in 'warm waters'

Published by Hurriyet on Thu, 10/08/2015 - 00:01

The Russian desire to reach the ?warm waters? of the Mediterranean goes back to before the First World War. The copyright belongs to foreign minister Sergei Sazonov of Tsarist Russia. Sazonov was actually the third signatory of the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, along with Britain and France, aiming to divide the collapsing Ottoman Empire into zones of control.