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
Rahmat Effendi sentenced to 6 years in prison on March 2012. In May, Effendi was elevated to mayor officially. He ran in the 2013 local elections, and won by securing 43 percent of the vote. Later, his victory was disputed by his rivals over administrative reasons, since he did not register his second wife in the election process. As mayor, Effendi refused to revoke permits to four churches when protested by groups. He was reelected following the 2018 election, securing 67.5% of the votes. Rahmat Effendi Rahmat Effendi (born February 3, 1964), sometimes nicknamed "Pepen", is an Indonesian politician of the Golkar