Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (1879 to 1919), was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic adviser, particularly on the Middle East at the time of the First World War. He is associated with the Sykes-Picot Agreement, drawn up during the war to partition the Ottoman Empire among the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire, and he was a key negotiator of the Balfour Declaration.
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the British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, initialled an agreed memorandum
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