[NYer]

Well it didn’t take long for the abominable Turks to demand that the relics be returned!

According to the BBC article:

While Christmas is by and large not celebrated in Muslim Turkey, the Christmas figure of Santa Claus certainly is in the Mediterranean town of his birth.

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Prof Nevzat Cevik, head of archaeological research in Demre, says Saint Nicholas had made it clear during his life that he wanted to be buried in his home town.

Eleni121, do you still feel the bones should be returned to Turkey?

[eleni121]

Please don't make things up as you go along....The parastate of Turkey is the LAST place where the relics should be reverently held, and I never believed otherwise. The only possible location within the parasitic state of Turkey would be in the Patriarchate in Constantinople but nobody can guarantee the safety of anything good in that hellhole.

Barring that dangerous move, I strongly suggest the Holy Mountain at Mt. Athos or the Moscow Patriarchate. The relics should temporarily rest in either of those two places. But - should the Cathedral at Bari return to its original Orthodox Christian faith, I would consider keeping the remains there.