Mavi Boncuk |Selim Ileri mentions Ahmet hamdiTanpınar's Beş Şehir/Five Cities "Istanbul begins with the discussion to an old woman a family friend hallucinatingly mumuring and naming source waters of Istanbul: "Çırçır, Karakulak, Şifa Hünkâr, Taşdelen, Sırmakeş..." [1]
Karakulak Fountain 1836 near Beykoz[2].
Evliya Çelebi praises Dereseki in Beykoz, pointing out the fine quality of its air and water. The researcher Ibrahim Hakki Konyali states that the Dereseki region, which is listed under villages in the Yoros area in old land registers, has ten distinct springs. These are Karakulak, Deli Osman, Sirmakes, Sifa, Derman, Kirklar, Hamam Deresi, Sogucak, Müezzinoglu and Beypinari.
Haluk Sehsuvaroglu also mentions this source and gives us it's story:: “The source of Karakulak, the most delicious water in the world, is near the village of Akbaba. The water was discovered by someone called Karakulak Ahmet Aga, whom it helped to recover from a disease. Later the spring was bought by a woman called Cennet Hatun who had the necessary building work carried out. Bezmialem Valide Sultan donated a market boat for transporting water to the city. The village had another market boat which had been donated by Ahmet Pasha, the governor of Hanije, for the purpose of carrying passengers and goods. Konyali, meanwhile, tells us that the dependants of Tokat manor took water to the Palace every week in silver urns. Until the last Ottoman Caliph left Istanbul, all the Sultans drank of this water in the Palace.
Osman Celal Kaygili says, “Of the water of Bosphorus I love Karakulak the best” and adds: “The location itself may appear a little oppressive, but the water has a taste not to be found in the “bird’s milk” of fairy tales, or even at a mother breast. Especially last year I drank some and liked it very much. And the nearby village of Akbaba, which is famous for its walnuts, has such delicious meat that when a kebab is being cooked on an open fire the smell reaches Dereseki.”
Source (no pun intended)
[1] Çocukluğumda, bir Arabistan şehrinde ihtiyar bir kadın tanımıştık. Sık sık hastalanır, humma başlar başlamaz İstanbul sularını sayıklardı:
-Çırçır, Karakulak, Şifa suyu, Hünkar suyu, Taşdelen, Sırmakeş...
Âdeta bir kurşun peltesi gibi ağırlaşan dilinin altında ve gergin, kuru dudaklarının arasında bu kelimeler ezildikçe fersiz gözleri canlanır, bütün yüzüne bizim duymadığımız bir şeyler dinliyormuş gibi bir dikkat gelir, yanaklarının çukuru sanki bu dikkatle dolardı.’
[2] Of the other famous waters of Beykoz. Sirmakes is a water Ahmet Mithat Efendi discovered in the wilderness and had pipes laid to convey to his seaside villa in Beykoz. Kaymakdonduran, which is at a popular spot for outings, on the other hand, springs out of the hill on the left of the fountain on the farm in the grounds of the foundation set up by Sarim Ibrahim Pasha in Hünkartepe. Another spot for an outing near Beykoz is Sultaniye. The spring water here is famous under the name Gümüssuyu. It was Mehmet Bey, the son of Pir Mustafa Pasha, who had the fountain here built in 1763.
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