"Keyfiyet" - The Ehlikeyiffor Rak Arak Ouzo The People of Pleasure A short historic narrative by Soy The first spirit ever distilled, the Arak (or "Rak" in modern Turkish), the distilled aniseed liquor, first found life in the Alembics of the Abbasid Imperial Capital, Badad, at the hands of Rz, the first Master Distiller in History right after Distillation was invented, and immediately made its way into Anatolia, Greece and the Balkans, maturing until the Ottoman Empire, and