I'm still incredulous at the idea that oil had nothing to do with this political problem in the Middle East.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia on topics related to the Middle East.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia on topics related to the history of Turkey and the Middle East.
In foreign affairs, the conclusion of a treaty with Russia for delimiting the British and Russian spheres of influence in the Middle East laid the foundations of entirely new relations between the British and Russian governments.
The motives of German intervention in the Eastern Question were ostensibly commercial; but the Bagdad railway concession, postulating for its ultimate success the control of the trade route by way of the Euphrates valley, involved political issues of the highest moment and opened up a new and perilous phase of the question of the Middle East.
