Hafiz Mustafa Turkish delights HM 1864 Mixed Turkish Delight & Dragee

“History of Hafız Mustafa” for Hafız Mustafa Confectionaries from 1864 to the present Candy maker Hafız Mustafa was founded by Hadji İsmail Hakkı Bey during the reign of Sultan Abdulaziz Khan in Bahçekapı, Istanbul in 1864, and then it was taken over by his son, Hafız Mustafa. Hadji İsmail Hakkı Bey, one of the first producers of sugar-candy, first started making sugar candies with dibek stone at the basement floor of the shop. Hafız Mustafa was occupied with candy-making and confectionary during the period in which his father operated the shop and he was a volunteering muezzin in the Arpacılar Mosque at the same time. It is well known that Hafız Mustafa is the first to have found and manufactured the salty pastry called pogaca. Hafız Mustafa won 11 medals in Europe in the areas of bakery and confectionery between the years 1926 and 1938. While increasing brand reliability at the national level, it also promoted Turkish products to the world and proved high brand recognition.