The impact of Mark Sykes, who later negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement, on the committee was said to be "profound".

These mandates and their maps closely followed the divisions presented in the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.

The purpose is proclaimed to be the premise of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Due to plans made with the French in the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Britain was designated as the mandate power.

The ensuing decisions, most notably the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which created the British Mandate of Palestine.

That settlement was not part of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Sykes came to feel this as well and it bothered him (see Sykes-Picot Agreement).

In the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, Transjordan was allocated to Britain.

However, the British and French also secretly concluded the Sykes-Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 16 May 1916 set aside the region of Palestine for "international administration" under British control.