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

from 2000 continues to this day If you’re 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.

Yourself, Siirt independent parliamentary candidate and engineer. He starts his journey by opening the Jet Driving School in 1987. Later, he founded his first company called JetPa Holding and implemented Jetkonut, Turkey’s first large-scale housing project.

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

While all this is happening, allegations of fraud obviously remain in the background.

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

Meanwhile, lawsuits continue to be filed against him because of the money he raised. The equity issues that occurred in the said Caprice Hotel also lead to many lawsuits. In 2003, some Turkish citizens arrived 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 TL 10,400 for his crime. In 2005, he was arrested again for failing to keep his promise to investors in the “Capricegold Bayrampaşa Project” and “Capricegold Maldives Project” and was released on March 28, 2017 pending trial.

On April 28, 2023, the Istanbul 1st High Criminal Court convicted him of “fraud of traders or company managers and cooperative managers”. 2 thousand 504 years 2 months He is sentenced to prison and a fine of 20,000 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 was created in 1999, on the 700th anniversary of the founding of the Ottoman Empire, resembles a monogram. Looking at the logo and font, We can easily choose Ottoman motifs.

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

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

Celebrities we all know, such as İbrahim Tatlıses and Sibel Can, also come to promote this model, which was designed in 7 months. to try 100,000 vehicles per year It is promised to be produced and many other plans for 2010 are also mentioned. Thousands of people are promised work.

In 2000, Signature leaves for international promotion.

It is exhibited at the famous Geneva Motor Show and “The first Turkish car” It will be launched as. It is said that 250,000 vehicles will be produced by 2002, not including test vehicles, and will rival even the likes of Mercedes and BMW!

Promises are made from very high positions and at that point no one asks many questions. For example, 1 year ago the intention was to produce 100,000 units, but 1 year later this number has It goes up to 250,000. It is said 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?

If we go back about 2 months to the Geneva Motor Show, we see that Fadıl Akgündüz wants a loan of 90 million dollars from the treasury. Treasury experts reviewing the report of this loan request to finance the brand find many inconsistencies in the report, including numerical data and Label it “unofficial” pass.

Fadıl never gives up and keeps saying that he will activate the project in 2015, but he cannot go one step further.

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

In short, as many experienced fraudsters do, religious values ​​of the people He tries to make them continue to believe in themselves through use

He continues to make new promises in his rally speech.

Akgündüz said 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 is becoming an entrepreneur.

Known, “Fadil does it!” He excites the citizens by saying his slogan, but what is the result?

We don’t see any Signature cars on the streets…

It’s been twenty years and still is No instrument has been implemented. There is no production permit, nor a coherent project… Given all that fraud history, this is not surprising.

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