2-751-898 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Route from Diarbekir to Zara', c1915. Map showing the journey of British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes between Diyarbakir and Zara in Turkey, (at that time part of the Ottoman Empire). Sykes (1879-1919) travelled through Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Persia and Turkey between 1905 and 1913, was honorary attaché to the British Embassy in Constantinople 1905-1906, was elected to parliament, worked in the Intelligence department of the War Office during the First World War, and died of the Spanish flu aged 39. From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]