"Given back" to whom, Jim? To the Ottoman Empire, the previous owners? I think not.

But I know from experience that it is no use trying to approach you with anything resembling facts on this topic, & it will only degenerate again into accusations of a hurtful nature both ways, so I have now done with this thread,

Hope all had a Merry Xmas. Happy New Year to one & all, Gentile or Jew Or you who turn the wheel and look to windward...

~M~

Not sure what this last bit means: it's from Eliot's The Waste Land, for anyone who may claim to be able to make heads or tails of that fraudulent load of old bum!