“Signature” Introduced as “Turkey’s First Domestic Automobile”

“Signature”, announced as “Turkey’s first world car”; went to famous fairs, was exhibited in rally areas, and even It will replace BMW and Mercedes It was even said. Moreover, its production would be done in Siirt!

from 2000 continuing to this day If you are ready to learn how this interesting adventure started, how it lasted for years, and what it is like today, let’s get started.

First, let’s get to know the “inventor” of Signature.

Itself, Siirt independent parliamentary candidate and engineer. He begins his adventure by opening the Jet Driving School in 1987. Later, he founded his first company called JetPa Holding and implemented Jetkonut, Turkey’s first mass housing project.

In 1995, he presented the world’s first Islamic hotel concept, Caprice Hotel, to world tourism and received the “5 Crescents” award at the 1st International World Islamic Tourism Conference with this project. In 1999, Fadıl Akgündüz appears with a brand new project. 300 million euros “Turkey’s First World Automobile Signature Project” It reveals.

Of course, while all this is happening, accusations of fraud continue in the background.

JetPa’s 600 million assets, religious feelings of expatriates He victimizes the company’s employees by trying to collect 3 million lira and transfer it to his sister and brother-in-law.

Meanwhile, lawsuits are constantly being filed against him because of the money he collected. The share problems that emerged in the Caprice Hotel we mentioned also lead to many lawsuits being filed. In 2003, some Turkish citizens in Germany for raising money with the “houses for the homeless” project He is released on bail after being tried in custody.

In 2006 “qualified embezzlement” He is sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison and a fine of 10 thousand 400 TL for his crime. In 2005, he was arrested again for not fulfilling his promise to investors in the “Capricegold Bayrampaşa Project” and “Capricegold Maldives Project” and was released pending trial on March 28, 2017.

On April 28, 2023, the Istanbul 1st High Criminal Court convicted him of “fraud of merchants or company managers and cooperative managers”. 2 thousand 504 years 2 months He is sentenced to imprisonment and a fine of 20 thousand liras.

Now that we know Jet Fadıl’s fraud history, we can move on to our main topic, the “Signature” project.

The signature of the brand, which emerged in 1999, on the 700th anniversary of the founding of the Ottoman Empire, resembles a monogram. When we look at the logo and font, We can easily choose Ottoman motifs.

In fact, if we were to further strengthen its connection with the Ottoman Empire, the name of the first model “Signature 700”, referring to the 700th anniversary We can see that it is.

The promotions of the car are making a big splash across the country.

Celebrities we all know, such as İbrahim Tatlıses and Sibel Can, are also coming to the promotion of this model, which was designed in 7 months. for trial 100,000 vehicles per year It is promised that it will be produced and many other plans to be made until 2010 are also mentioned. Thousands of people are promised employment.

In 2000, Signature sets off for international promotion.

It is exhibited at the famous Geneva Motor Show and “The First Turkish Automobile” It is launched as. It is said that 250,000 vehicles, excluding trial vehicles, will be produced by 2002 and that they will even rival vehicles such as Mercedes and BMW!

Promises are made from very high places and at the time, no one questions much. For example, 1 year ago it was planned to produce 100,000 units, but 1 year later this number It goes up to 250,000. It is claimed that the East will develop with this vehicle and everyone in Turkey will want to replace their vehicles with this vehicle. Moreover, while there is not even a production permit yet…

Or was everything just an empty dream?

When we go back about 2 months from the Geneva Auto Show, we see that Fadıl Akgündüz wants a loan of 90 million dollars from the treasury. Treasury experts who look at the report of this loan request to finance the brand encounter many inconsistencies in the report, including numerical data and Label it as “unofficial” passing.

Fadıl never gives up and continues to say that he will activate the project by 2015, but he cannot take it even one step further.

In his own words, he puts it this way: “I am the 6th generation grandchild of His Holiness Hakkı from Erzurum, and the 8th generation grandson of His Holiness İsmail Fakirullah. I am trying to serve the East with the idea that it is not one of us who sleeps full while its neighbor is hungry. My investments, by the government is blocked.”

In short, as many skilled fraudsters do, religious values ​​of the people He tries to continue to make them believe in himself by using

He continues to make new promises in his rally speech.

Akgündüz said that he would produce the car he brought to the rally in Siirt and sell it at a very cheap price. At least 1 person from each family He motivates the people again by saying that he will become a business owner.

Famous, “Fadil does it!” He gets the citizens excited by saying his slogan, but what is the result?

We can’t see any Signature cars on the street…

It’s been 20 years and still There is no tool implemented. There is neither a production permit nor a coherent project… Considering all that fraud history, it should not be surprising.

Well, have you ever known Jet Fadıl or Promised to launch for 20 years Have you heard of the automobile? Let’s meet in the comments. 🙂