My interest in Karamanlidika studies began with a family question. For some time, my cousin Onur Ertur and I have been trying to trace the history of one of our ancestors, Konyali Hacı Mehmet Efendi. From the information available to us, we estimate that he moved from Konya to Edirne sometime around the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Konya lies within the broader central Anatolian geography that figures prominently in the history of the Kar