What is "turkish delight"

Turkish delight is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar.

Turkish delight or Turkish Delight may also refer to:

• Turkish Delight (1927 film)
• Turkish Delight (1973 film), a 1973 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven

:* Turks Fruit, a novel by Jan Wolkers, on which the film is based

• The nickname of Despina Storch (1895–1918), a Turkish spy in World War I
• Turhan Bey (1922–2012), an Austrian actor dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans
• Fry's Turkish Delight, a chocolate sweet made by Cadbury
• A beverage made from salep orchid tuber flour, popular mainly in Turkey
• A chapter in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• Turkish Delights (music project), a Turkish musical project founded in 2008 by Max van der Rose

Turkish Delight is a 1973 Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven and filmed by Jan de Bont. The film is a love story of an artist and a young woman, starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven. The story is based on the novel Turks fruit by Jan Wolkers.

Turkish Delight is the most successful film of Dutch cinema. The film was a massive success at the Dutch box office: according to Alle Record, 3,338,000 people saw the film, while the Netherlands Film Festival puts it at 3,5 million, corresponding to about 26% of the population of the Netherlands at the time. In 1973 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and in 1999 it received a special Golden Calf Award for Best Dutch Film of the Century. It was entered into the Canon of Dutch Cinema in 2007. In 2005 a musical version of Turks fruit was made starring Antonie Kamerling and Jelka van Houten.

Turkish delight, lokum or rahat lokum and many other transliterations ( rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, , from colloquial rāḥat al-ḥalqūm) is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are mostly flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common flavors include cinnamon and mint. In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive.

Turkish Delight is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Paul Sloane for DeMille Pictures Corporation. It stars Julia Faye, in her first top-billed performance, and Rudolph Schildkraut.

A complete 16 mm print of the film exists at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.