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I do agree this is a more complicated question then many think
For example I don't see any indigenous rights activist advocating for land back in turkey and for the turks to give it back to the Greeks
You don't see anyone advocating arabs give Egypt back to the copts.
I personally don't see it as a very complicated question. Historical wrongs exist for all people, so we either need to right every single one and upend everything around us now or we need to start burying hatchets and working together on the land we share now while reconciling those past wrongs.
Why would they give it back to the Greeks? To my knowledge, the Greeks took the land they controlled in modern day Turkey from Persia under Alexander the Great.
But that does support the point: If we were to "give the land back" in Turkey, who gets it? We have recorded history in the area, but what about the time before recorded history considering we only have about 6,000 years to go on Globally and our species has been around for about 300,000 years? Even if we put that aside, who's recorded history do we go on? Does that mean those with oral histories get the shaft? If we find any point where the indigenous group conquered and killed another for the land, is their claim void?
I think this idea is only complicated when we take the "land back" route instead of the "working together to make things better" route.