Turkish delight form of "lokum" made with starch and sugar. The family business, now in its fifth generation, still operates under the founder's name. Tim Richardson, a historian of sweets, has questioned the popular attribution of Hacı Bekir as the inventor of Turkish Delight, writing that "specific names and dates are often erroneously associated with the invention of particular sweets, not least for commercial reasons". Similar Arab and Persian recipes, including the use of starch and sugar, predate Bekir by several centuries. The Oxford Companion to Food states that although Bekir is often credited with the invention, there is no hard evidence
Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan (born in Karaman, Turkey 1926 - August 24, 2014) was a Turkish poet and songwriter. He graduated in 1948 from a military college and served as a regimental officer. Later he graduated from the Faculty of Linguistics, History and Geography and taught literature at the Turkish Naval High School, the German Deutsche Schule and Marmara College. Erdoğan has written folk poetry in syllabic metric and aruz. He used Turkish lyrics in a number of songs. His Ruba'ic poems were published by "Hisar". He wrote the lyrics for the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic;