Tarbouche January 2014, Cervera de los Montes 50 x 45 x 4 cm Acrylic color on canvas i The image is from Tarbouche, a popular Lebanese candy, an equivalent of the American Twinkie. Tarbouche or fez is a hat developed during the Ottoman Empire. Atatürk banned it in Turkey in 1925 as part of his modernizing reforms. To many people in the Levant the fez is a symbol of the Ottoman occupation. Tags: Lebanon, Ottomans, Turkey, fez, tarbouche, hat, candy, Twinkie 49 / 124