Is this the end of Sykes-Picot?
Bilal Shamsi
32891111
An image posted by ISIS of a bulldozer destroying a section of the Iraq-Syria border, June 2014
Foreign dominance in area of complex society
“The printing press is modern weapon for a commander” T.E Lawrence The title above for this paper “is this the end of the Sykes-picot agreement” has become a major topic in today’s society because of the recent up rise of ISIS or what they like to be called IS “Islamic state” (Cage, 2014). Their main objective is to end the century old map made by the British and the French to divide at that era was known as the Ottoman Empire. What is truly fascinating about the Sykes-picot was that is was brilliant international diplomacy …show more content…
It has been prescribed to us by many news organizations such as the BBC that they are fighting due to the Sykes- Picot agreement. However the area at which they fighting is due to a lot of oil rich area (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). Syria has lost $3.8billion on sales of oil because of ISIS control (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). The 2 million that ISIS makes daily because of the illegal oil sales have been able to provide them with salaries and money to keep them functional (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). "This is a lucrative trade for some businessmen who are mainly war profiteers who can also find buyers any time at the right price," he said. Overall if the ISIS advances on Erbil oil fields that are coincidently currently run by the Kurdish rebel groups ISIS would have complete control (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). Currently that seems to be there targeted area. Overall it shows that greed is overshadowing ISIS is because, with the focus on the Islamic state their primary focus right now seems to be the oil fields colliers greed argument could relate to this. However much more research needs to be done on the ISIS group and the true amounts of funding they are getting from illegal wells instead of foreign
Bilal Shamsi
32891111
An image posted by ISIS of a bulldozer destroying a section of the Iraq-Syria border, June 2014
Foreign dominance in area of complex society
“The printing press is modern weapon for a commander” T.E Lawrence The title above for this paper “is this the end of the Sykes-picot agreement” has become a major topic in today’s society because of the recent up rise of ISIS or what they like to be called IS “Islamic state” (Cage, 2014). Their main objective is to end the century old map made by the British and the French to divide at that era was known as the Ottoman Empire. What is truly fascinating about the Sykes-picot was that is was brilliant international diplomacy …show more content…
It has been prescribed to us by many news organizations such as the BBC that they are fighting due to the Sykes- Picot agreement. However the area at which they fighting is due to a lot of oil rich area (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). Syria has lost $3.8billion on sales of oil because of ISIS control (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). The 2 million that ISIS makes daily because of the illegal oil sales have been able to provide them with salaries and money to keep them functional (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). "This is a lucrative trade for some businessmen who are mainly war profiteers who can also find buyers any time at the right price," he said. Overall if the ISIS advances on Erbil oil fields that are coincidently currently run by the Kurdish rebel groups ISIS would have complete control (AL-KHALIDI, 2014). Currently that seems to be there targeted area. Overall it shows that greed is overshadowing ISIS is because, with the focus on the Islamic state their primary focus right now seems to be the oil fields colliers greed argument could relate to this. However much more research needs to be done on the ISIS group and the true amounts of funding they are getting from illegal wells instead of foreign