Apples, apricots, pears, peaches and melons are popular choices.

[4] According to Robert Dankoff, the term bastik, used in much of Anatolia including Bursa, Kayseri, and Van, derives from Armenian pasteł (պաստեղ, "pastegh" / "fruit leather") which in turn derives from Ancient Greek pastillos (πάστιλλος, "pastille").

[5] This word and the fruit leather it describes was first attested in Middle Armenian as պաստեղ (pasteġ) in the year 1227 AD.

The dictionary asserts that the relationship between pestil and French pastille is ambiguous.

The first Turkish attestation of the word is dated back to 1501 dictionary Câmiü'l-Fürs.