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Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Iraq and Turkey specifically created by the British Empire in order to NOT have these countries follow ethnico-cultural li
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Iraq and Turkey specifically created by the British Empire in order to NOT have these countries follow ethnico-cultural lines, thus making them weaker, with the Kurd situation being probably the worst example?
- nanis 6y agoAh-em ... Iraq was specifically created by the British when they split the lands they had captured from the Ottoman Empire. The Republic of Turkey was created by Turks fighting, among others, the British, following the war fought over the imposed Sevres[1] partitioning of Anatolia. The Lausanne treaty[2] where one of my great grandfathers was in the Turkish delegation defined most of the borders of the Republic of Turkey. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne