The official Foundation Assembly of ITI was held at the Bavarian Parliament on 12 of December 2016 in a Conference  hosted by the Greens led by Ms. Margarete Bause. The Conference was attended by prominent Scholars, human rights activists and Uyghur politicians such as Prof. Marie Holzmann, Ursuala Gauthier, Louisa Greve (NED) Erkin Alptekin and Orkash Devlet from Taiwan.