MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Recovery of funds granted to the association Yavuz Sultan Selim – E-002120/2024

Question for written answer  E-002120/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE)

On 24 November 2023, Commissioner Iliana Ivanova replied to a written question I tabled about a Turkish Islamist association, Yavuz Sultan Selim, which had received EU funding[1].

In the light of our revelations, the Commission said that it had asked the association to terminate the agreement with it and to pay back the funds that had already been disbursed. The Commission also informed the beneficiary of its intention to have it placed under an early detection procedure, a rapid exclusion system intended to sanction EU grant beneficiaries that pose a risk to the EU’s financial interests.

• 1.Has the Commission recovered the funds paid to the association?
• 2.Has the Commission placed the association under an early detection procedure?
• 3.Does the Commission recognise the role we have played in detecting this association?

Submitted: 16.10.2024

• [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2023-002384-ASW_EN.html