Turkish delight. Turkish delight: an Ottoman confection embraced by GreeceLong before Turkish delight became the familiar companion to Greek coffee, it had already travelled a remarkable journey. Unlike the hard candies of the time, Turkish delight melted gently in the mouth, perfumed with mastic resin, rosewater, bergamot or lemon. The white sweet that became the ‘submarine’If Turkish delight arrived from the East packed in paper boxes, ypovrychio followed a slower path. Before becoming known as the “submarine,” it was simply called white sweet or mastic sweet.