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The fundamental purpose of Britain was to control his colonies in the Middle East and protect his interests in the regions at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Thus, all knowledge production activity was valuable. The legitimate ground of the imperialist policies was formed by the knowledge production through which political and economic policies emerged. The salient channels of knowledge production became the societies and the institutions conducting archaeological, historical, and ethnographic studies and the agents were the providers of information flow related to the Middle East. One of the agents with this mission was Mary Sykes, who was one of the signatories of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Thus, research will focus on Mark Sykes´s travel, in which he visited Ankara and Inebolu in 1905, as a reflection of Britain´s imperialist policy. His categorization of people was the projection of Western superiority in the orientalist context. In addition, Sykes exposed his political and anthropological observations in the scope of intelligence gathering. He also reveals his thoughts on Anglo-Ottoman relations. Thus, this study will examine the knowledge production of Britain in the Middle East over the travel of Mark Sykes and reveal the significance of anthropological inspections and socio-economic developments in Britain's orientalist and imperialist context.

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