📋 Tender Overview
Jurgens said, "The FETO-affiliated association Frohsinn is active in Bavaria and southern Germany. It is a 30-year-old organisation that employed approximately 150 employees prior to 2016. The association operated a centre for adult education, a kindergarten, dormitories, and schools. Former Director of Integration for the City of Augsburg, Matthias Garte, acknowledged that they suspected an obscure network was behind these activities but that it was difficult to uncover it. Later, it was revealed that the FETO-affiliated organisation in question received 945 thousand euros of annual funding from the state of Bavaria. Between 2016 and 2020, 32 thousand Turkish nationals sought political asylum in Germany. Bavaria has 3,500 asylum seekers, the vast majority of whom are FETO members." Assoc. Prof. Valeria Giannotta, an Italian writer, said that she was in front of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye in Ankara on July 15 during the FETO coup attempt.
Giannotta stated that everything was clearly demonstrated in the coup photographs and stated, "The Turkish people took to the streets and showcased their resilience by standing up to tanks, planes, and bombs. The Western world failed to comprehend the Turkish nation's victory of democracy. Certain reporters in Italy claimed that the coup was a hoax and that the government had orchestrated it. In reality, FETO conducted the coup incrementally. FETO muddled the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer trials after the December 17–25 judicial coup attempt. FETO had a hand in the downing of the Russian warplane, the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara, and the Gezi Park Protests. It was a lengthy undertaking. The Turkish nation and government united and repelled the July 15 FETO coup attempt."
Assoc. Prof. Ak?ll?, a faculty member of K?r?ehir Ahi Evran University's Department of International Relations, remarked that Türkiye's 100-year march towards democracy has been disrupted by coups, the most serious of which was the thwarted coup attempt by FETO on the evening of July 15, 2016.
Stating that the Turkish nation upheld democracy, Ak?ll? added, "Türkiye is a democratic country. The emergence of democracy in Türkiye was not a spontaneous occurrence. The Turkish nation achieved democracy by resisting coups. FETO attempted a coup and engaged in illegal activities to seize control of Türkiye. It caused the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in the process. The FETO coup attempt was thwarted by the democratically elected government with the assistance of civilians, and this struggle was unprecedented."
Moderating the panel, Prof. Purta? stated that the Turkish people's heroism, patriotism, and faith in democracy were what ultimately thwarted the coup attempt by FETO's supporters within the Turkish Armed Forces and security forces on the evening of July 15, 2016. Purta? stressed that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had called the people to the squares during the incident, and that this invitation had given the Turkish people courage.
