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“The great betrayal”: The mother of all Middle East wars

Women at the victory celebrations: the dawn of a new Syria?(Bild: AP/Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All right reserved)

After the "Arab Revolt" against the Turks in the First World War: instead of independence, they suffered colonial dismemberment at the hands of the British and French. Krone+ explains why the events of a century ago still have an impact today.

July 1917: British officer Thomas Edward Lawrence, known as the "Lawrence of Arabia", storms the port city of Aqaba on the Red Sea with his Bedouin troops. The "Arab Revolt" against the rule of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire achieves its first significant success.