Okay, he wasn't exactly Turkish! But, his biography actually starts in the Anatolia, not the North Pole. I recently got change to visit the town where he lived but figured a bit of background history was needed to explain the story.
Until now (2017), the bones of St. Nicholas were believed to be in Bari, Italy. It had been thought they were taken by Italian merchants in 1087 when Myra was invaded by the Seljuk Turks.
An intact tomb has been found underneath Saint Nicholas Church, in Demre district of Turkey's south-west province of Antalya in 2017. Cemil Bayram, Antalya Director of Surveying and Monuments, said that during a study of old documents they had found notes saying the bones taken to Bari had belonged to another priest.
Saint Nicholas was the Greek bishop of Myra, a town in southwestern Anatolia, in the fourth century. Stories of miracles performed by Nicholas spread into Northern Europe, where the local people mixed the stories with their own winter legends. Over time this mixture of Greek and Nordic beliefs produced the familiar figure of Santa Claus. Fifteen centuries after Saint Nicholas, his hometown became part of the Republic of Turkey - Myra now called Demre, in Antalya Province.
The church of St. Nicholas in Demre is a popular destination for pilgrims as the site of St. Nicholas's final resting place, and archeological excavarions have been taking place there for 20 years.
See my " Demre - Myra Post " now!
resources : http://zmyasa.com/professional-works/portfolyo/st-nicholas-church/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41504172
https://turkeytravelplanner.com/go/med/demre/index.html
https://www.theguideistanbul.com/alternative-turkish-christmas-ideas/
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