... for Arab support against Turkey which had entered the war on the side of Germany. He made this promise to the Arabic Ottoman governor of Mecca and Medina, Husayn ibn "Ali and it was later referred to as the Husayn-McMahon Understandings. Then, in 1916 Britain and France, victors of war, secretly signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement.(8) The agreement basically divided ... ...

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