Haci Bekir Turkish Delight

Haci Bekir Turkish Delight

Haci Bekir - The Turkish Delight Creator

Haci Bekir Effendi, The Turkish Delight Creator, earning the title (Hacı=Hadji) after his pilgrimage to Mecca between 1817 – 1820, had come to İstanbul from Araç, Kastamonu in 1777, opening a small shop in Bahçekapı and selling desserts such as lokums (delights) and hard candies which he personally produced. Haci Bekir Confectionery today has a proud past of four centuries with delicacies relished in five continents.

In Turkish delight production which started in the 16th century in Turkey, honey and molasses were used as sweeteners, and flour was used for binding water and attaining the desired texture. By the 19th century, sugar refineries were set up in Europe and their products began to come to Turkey under the name "loaf sugar". Candymaker Haci Bekir would pray and melt this sugar, and then add rose petals, cinnamon, gum mastic, orange, or lemon, pistachio, nuts, almond, walnut, or with chocolate produce hard candies of various flavors and colors.

Haci Bekir Effendi also introduced the use of starch, which was being experimented by German scientist Constantin Kirchhoff, instead of flour; and using the combination of sugar and starch, he created and improved lokum, which is an irreplaceable delicacy of our cuisine and still inimitable by the rest of the world.

In addition to developing various kinds of Turkish candies and lokums through his meticulous personal work, Haci Bekir also became a legend with his almond candies made in swinging cauldrons and various almond pastes made by kneading and shaping boiled and peeled almonds with sugar and sherbet.

Turkish Delight History

It is rumored that while these were happening in İstanbul, an English customer of Haci Bekir Effendi was offering around the lokum he had brought from İstanbul as ' Turkish Delights ", with a name he himself had coined. Since then, lokum came to be known as " Turkish Delight " in general, especially in English-speaking countries, and as "Lokoum" in France and the Balkans.

Ingrained in our culture and tradition as a significant element of Turkish-Ottoman history, Haci Bekir has also featured in novels and articles documenting the lifestyle of the times, been penned by foreigners who were components of the İstanbul mosaic of the 19th and 20th centuries, and even been portrayed by the Maltese artist Amadeo Preziosi, one of the most famous of his era. The original painting of 43x58 cm, showing Haci Bekir in his shop with details hinting at the lifestyle of the times now hangs in the Louvre Museum. Lithographic reproduction of the painting is exhibited as item number 214 in the Topkapı Palace.
Following the death of Hacı Bekir Effendi, first his son Mehmed Muhiddin Effendi, and after him, his grandson Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir took over the business. They continued with the same principles, talents, and dedication, and the honorary title of Chief Confectioner to the Palace remained within the family for generations.

In 1873, Mehmed Muhiddin Effendi was charged by the palace to present Ottoman confections in a fair organized in Vienna under the care of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. He returned home with a silver medal and, having observed that all western participants carried their own trademark, created the first-ever trademark of the Ottomans and his company, using the silver medal as a logo.
Later, in 1888, confectioner Mehmed Muhiddin Effendi participated in the Cologne Fair organized under the care of Augusta, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia, and returned home with his second silver medal. In 1893, in the Chicago World's Fair celebrating the 40th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus to America, Mehmed Muhiddin realized the first production and sales of lokum there, introducing this specialty to the new continent. In the Brussels Fair in 1897, he added gold medals to his trophies.

Ali Muhiddin, although quite young, took over when his father Mehmed Muhiddin passed away, and realized many breakthroughs with the help and support of his mother Reşide. His time was the golden era of the company. Gold medals were received in the Paris and Nice Fairs in France in 1906. The title of Chief Confectioner to the Palace was also granted to Ali Muhiddin.
In the year 1926, in the first floating fair designed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to promote Turkish industry in North African and European countries, Hacı Bekir confectioneries took their place on the steamer Karadeniz to be exhibited for 90 days along with the limited number of industrial and agricultural products of the times.

In 1934, with the enaction of the Surname Law, the trademark evolved into its presently used form. In 1939, the company participated in New York World Trade Fair, presenting their lokums and other products made by confectioners from Turkey.

In 1965, traditional production began to be modernized with the use of machinery imported from West Germany.
After the passing of Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir in 1975, production continued under the name Hacı Bekir Manufacturing Inc. and retail activities under the name Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir Trading Inc.
In 1989, manufacturing activities that took place in Eminönü ever since the beginning was moved to the modern production plant in Pendik.
The first franchise opened in 2007. Operating under the management of family members of the fourth and fifth generations and still expanding their vast knowledge and experience of two and a half centuries. As the oldest company in Turkey and one of the oldest 100 in the world, Hacı Bekir still continues to create the world's most delicious, top-quality confections. In addition to the shops in Eminönü/Bahçekapı, Beyoğlu/Parmakkapı, Kadıköy, the Turkish Delicacies Museum shop in Maslak, and the franchise in Bakırköy, the Atakule branch in Ankara/Çankaya has been added to the sales network. Today, the fifth and sixth generations of the family in business and the personnel from all levels of the Hacı Bekir Company proudly share the good fortune of being the epitome of quality and taste at home and abroad for so many generations.

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