Thomas Dworzak Highway, eastern Jordan, that partly follows the Sykes-Picot line. Sir Mark Sykes, a British diplomat, secretly divided up Ottoman lands in the Middle East between Britain and France in 1916 with F
(...) rench counterpart François Georges-Picot (the Sykes-Picot agreement) in anticipation of a Turkish defeat. The agreement between to fading empires has had lasting repercussions in the region, racked by war and political instability. Sykes died in a Paris hotel room of the Spanish flu while attending the 1919 peace conference. His body was exhumed nine decades later by virologists hoping to find a sample of the H1N1 virus that caused the pandemic. Jordan. 2018 © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
