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The secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 was a plan for Russian, British, and French administration of dismembered Ottoman lands in the Middle East and Central Asia. Russia dropped out but at the 1919 [[Paris Peace Conference]] much of the territory of the Ottoman Empire was placed under British and French control, while [[Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] led a revolution and established the secular nation of [[Turkey]].
The secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 was a plan for Russian, British, and French administration of dismembered Ottoman lands in the Middle East and Central Asia. Russia dropped out but at the 1919 [[Paris Peace Conference]] much of the territory of the Ottoman Empire was placed under British and French control, while [[Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] led a revolution and established the secular nation of [[Turkey]].
[[Image:Otto1920.jpg|thumb|320px|Many countries were formed and out of the Ottoman Empire between 1880 and 1923]]
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
===Post 1830===
===Post 1830===
* Ahmad, Feroz. ''The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914'', 1969.
* Ahmad, Feroz. ''The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914'', 1969.
* Arnold, Guy. ''Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War.'' (2002). 179 pp.
* Arnold, Guy. ''Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War.'' (2002). 179 pp.