A Turkish Doughnut Maker Whose Sweets Honor the Dead

By: Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur

29 September 2026 at 04:01

For one Istanbul confectioner, distributing fried dough balls as memorials is not just a job. It’s personal.

Niyazi Dumlu handing out lokma, a kind of Turkish doughnut, from his food truck near an Istanbul mosque in November.d

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