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
Tatari Oguz Effendi Tatari Oguz Effendi Tatarî Oğuz Effendi (March 1831 – 19 May 1871) was an Ottoman educationist, literature teacher, translator, art collector and writer. Tatarî Oğuz Effendi was born in Paris. While still very young, in 1838, his father, Tatarî Enis, who was the personal messenger of the Sultan Mahmud II, brought him to "Dersaadet" (today’s Istanbul). Tatarî Oğuz Effendi studied at the Enderun School between 1843-1848. Following his graduation, between the age of seventeen and nineteen (1848–1850) he worked as a French translator. Between 1850–1852, he worked as a translator of stories from French into Ottoman Turkish for the first