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
Djemaleddin Effendi now buried at the Edirnekapi Shehitlik Cemetery. His memoirs were first published in Constantinople in 1920, and then edited by Selim Kutsan and re-published in modern Turkish under the title "Siyasi Hatiralarim" (My Political Memoirs), by the publisher Nehir Yayinlari (Istanbul) in 1990. Djemaleddin Effendi Djemaleddin Effendi (1848–1917, ) was a senior judge of the Ottoman Empire. His father, Sheikh Yusufzâde Hâlid Effendi, was a member of the judiciary and served as Kazasker and as a minister. His mother was a member of the Kevabibiye family and a daughter of Mehmed Said Efendi. Mehmet Cemaleddin was educated in Ottoman and