Dhaka, June 21 -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday issued a stern warning against the emergence of a "new Sykes-Picot order" in the Middle East, cautioning against redrawing borders through violence.

"We will not allow the establishment of a new Sykes-Picot order in our region with borders to be drawn in blood," Erdogan said during a summit of Islamic countries held in Istanbul, according to Al Jazeera.

The original Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed in 1916 between Britain and France during World War I, was a secret pact that aimed to divide the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces into zones of British and French control and influence following the empire's collapse.

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