How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East - The New Yorker

Robin Wright on the legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the strife that continues over its artificial boundaries in the Middle East.

“Sykes-Picot was a mistake, for sure,” Zikri Mosa, an adviser to Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani, told me. “It was like a forced marriage. It was doomed from the start. It was immoral, because it decided people’s future without asking them.”