There are no official records of İttik Dede; per the prevailing tradition he was an Ottoman soldier who fell during street fighting in Nicosia in the 1570 Ottoman campaign for Cyprus and was buried where he died. Some accounts say he was born in the Morea (Peloponnese) and fought alongside Moravizade Ahmet Efendi, the first imam of the Selimiye Mosque. The Cypriot-Turkish name 'ittik' (Anatolian 'yitik', meaning 'lost') reflects that his identity and circumstances were unknown, so the identification of the occupant is traditional rather than documented. He rests in a single-room türbe with a wooden sarcophagus in the Selimiye quarter of North Nicosia. (Sources: Turkish Wikipedia 'İttik Dede Türbesi'; Cyprus EVKAF)