A couple of weeks later, Erdoğan himself unleashed a furious anti-Western diatribe at Istanbul’s Marmara University. In his speech,&nbsp;he compared the West’s interference in the Middle East today with the British officer Lawrence of Arabia’s involvement in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans during World War I, and blasted the&nbsp;Sykes-Picot Agreement, which has since defined the Middle East’s political map.
几周后，埃尔多安本人在伊斯坦布尔马尔马拉大学（Marmara University）措辞严厉地抨击了西方，他将如今西方对中东的干预与一战期间英国军官“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”（Lawrence of Arabia）介入针对奥斯曼帝国的阿拉伯革命（Arab Revolt）相提并论，并谴责了决定了此后中东政治版图的赛克斯-皮科协定（Sykes-Picot Agreement）。