Davut Selim

Davut Selim is a member of Turkey's Century-Old Brands Association, a designation tied to continuous operation under one name for over a hundred years, and the business dates its own founding to 1914 in Mardin. Its coffee is stone-ground rather than machine-milled, an older processing method the business highlights specifically for its arabica dibek coffee, alongside the almond sugar, badem şekeri, that uses locally grown Mardin almonds as its base. The confectionery line also leans on natural, plant-based colorings rather than synthetic dyes, a detail that matters for a category, Turkish delight and colored sugar candy, that commonly relies on artificial color. Beyond the stone-ground coffee and almond sugar, the shop makes helva and lokum from the same regional repertoire, sold through an online store with card payment and a consulting hotline staffed from nine in the morning to nine at night. No individual founder is named on the site itself, an omission that stands out given the business's own emphasis on its century-plus continuity, though the Century-Old Brands membership functions as outside corroboration of the 1914 date rather than the company's claim standing alone.