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Picot was a French diplomat who worked with the British diplomat Sykes during World War I to set the borders of the Middle East after the war. The current borders in the Middle East are largely a result of this collaboration, called the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Allied powers

The Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1916 is the agreement in question.

The area from southern Turkey to southern Arabia, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the borders of Iran, formed an independent Arab state.