Knowing Bihruz's naive, romantic nature, he hatches a grand conspiracy just to deceive him and see where it leads. Keşfi, the son of the Damascus defterdar (finance director), drags the book toward the center of a dramatic crisis by stringing together lies—such as that he knows Periveş and that she has died. He is the main source of humor and fake intrigue (trickster) in the novel.
