The British and French wanted to own the rich oil reserves in the Middle East and take control over the entire Middle East. The only way to achieve this was to topple the Ottoman Empire and end the caliphate. At of the start of the 1900s, they worked in fine detail on all ethnicities, religions, sects, groups, movements, organizations et cetera in the Middle East, except for the Turks and Kurds. They spent big bucks on all media outlets, associations, foundations and organizations and provoked an uprising.