French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Army of the Levant and had helped it against the Arab nationalist uprisings. As in Al-Jazira Province, the French authorities refused to grant any autonomy status to the Golan Circassians. French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (; "") (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire concerning Syria and Lebanon. The mandate system was supposed to differ from colonialism, with the governing country acting as a trustee until the inhabitants would be able to stand on their own. At that
Lebanon–Turkey relations history because Lebanon gained independence from Ottoman Syria. The Ottoman Empire, which controlled Lebanon as part of Syrian Vilayat, had Lebanon as the most diverse region in the Ottoman Empire. There was several ethnic and religious tensions, notably the infamous 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war which devastated Lebanon and the Ottoman further imposed strict rule in Lebanon. The Turkish Government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has perceived the Hezbollah, a Shi’a militant group backed by Iran with a negative perception, based on historical trauma in Lebanon and the threat to Turkish legacies in Lebanon. Thus Turkey has sought to maintain closer