context: Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, the Sixth Baron of Sildemir (March 16, 1879 - February 16, 1919), British political, diplomatic, military, and travel adviser. He specialized in the affairs of the Middle East and the natural regions of Syria during the period of the First World War. In 1916 he signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement on Britain with Pico, on behalf of France, to divide the spheres of influence in the fertile Crescent Territory of most of the then-fallen Ottoman Empire. Tsarist Russia then participated in the ratification of the agreement, wishing to share other spheres of influence before it was toppled by the Bolshevik revolution.
question: Who is Mark Sykes?
answers.text: British political, diplomatic, military, and travel adviser