The Kurds Sykes–Picot Agreement

an ethnographic map of eastern turkey after ww1

as cast, sykes-picot allocated part of northern kurdistan , substantial part of mosul vilayet including city of mosul france in area b, russia obtained bitlis , van in northern kurdistan (the contemplated arab state included kurds in eastern limit split between , b areas). bowman says there around 2.5 million kurds in turkey, in mountain region called kurdistan. kurdish peoples have not had state of own since fall of zand dynasty.

partitioning of ottoman turkey according aborted treaty of sèvres

sharif pasha presented memorandum on claims of kurd people paris peace conference in 1919 , suppressed report of king-crane commission recommended form of autonomy in natural geographical area lies between proposed armenia on north , mesopotamia on south, divide between euphrates , tigris western boundary, , persian frontier eastern boundary .

the russians gave territorial claims following bolshevik revolution , @ san remo, french awarded french mandate of syria , english british mandate of mesopotamia. subsequent treaty of sèvres potentially provided kurdish territory subject referendum , league of nations sanction within year of treaty. turkish war of independence led treaty being superseded treaty of lausanne in there no provision kurdish state.

the end result kurds included in territories of turkey, iraq, syria , iran.