SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENTS, THE ORIGINS OF CHAOS

Events that shaped the countries of the Mediterranean

An episode from the series ECHOES OF HISTORY

Synopsis

September 2015. The terrorists of Daesh invest the Siro-Iraqi border and, in a highly symbolic gesture, hoist the organization's black flag on this line, which they consider an absurd Western fabrication.

This propaganda video plunges us into a geopolitical history that dates back over a century.

Indeed, this border in the middle of the desert conceals one of the most problematic agreements in the history of the Middle East. This partition is at the root of the chaos that still reigns in the region today: the Sykes-Picot agreements.