Tout a commencé, selon moi, par les accords de paix conclus à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale — le Traité de Versailles et le Traité de Lausanne, ce dernier assurant la paix avec l’Empire Ottoman — et la façon dont les frontières des territoires ottomans consentis ont été établies en fonction des intérêts des pays victorieux, et non de la géographie humaine de l’époque.
I guess what I would say is that you have to start, frankly, with the peace settlements that were made after the First World War—the Treaty of Versailles, and the Lausanne treaty, which made peace with the Ottoman Empire—and the way those territories that had previously been part of the Ottoman Empire were divided up into mandates along lines that corresponded to the interests of the victorious powers in World War I but not necessarily to the human geography of the region itself at the time.