Turkey and the Kurds Need an Antwerp Agreement
LONDON--Exactly 95 years ago, the Ottoman Empire came to an end. On August 10, 1920, the Ottomans and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Sѐvres, partitioning the Middle East between European nations. Palestine and Iraq went to the British, who also maintained influence in the kingdom that would become Saudi Arabia. The French were granted Lebanon and Syria. Italy claimed large swaths of Turkey. In a nod to President Woodrow Wilson's principle of self-determination, the Kurds--largely Sunni Muslims but an ethnically distinct minority--were set to receive their long dreamed-of homeland, an independent Kurdistan.
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