Looks like Osman Dincbas and Bulent Aksu have been removed as deputy finance minsters in Turkey. Both, with private sector experience, were retained in conjunction with Albayrak taking over the finance ministry.

Looking over my notes from that time, one thing I was telling clients at the time was of the impending culture conflict btw the “son-in-law’s businesspeople” and the old(er) guard/bureaucrats including/led by Agbal...

I also remember Dincbas & Co being well received by mainstream commentators at the time https://amp.ft.com/content/23d35946-b1b4-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c

Dincbas also appeared in the 2016 leak of Albayrak’s emails on surveillance strategies https://wikileaks.org/berats-box/emailid/11269

Bulent Aksu was the CFO of Turkcell - a company every Swedish gov and Telia representative remembers painfully. https://erikmeyersson.com/2014/03/21/turkeys-economic-miracle-and-its-swedish-cheerleaders/

The new appointees, Şakir Ercan Gül and Cengiz Yavilioglu, look cut more from the same block as Agbal, public administration officials and bureaucrats, with experiences from gov agencies and SOEs.

As such it seems career mobility has shifted back to the bureaucrats, who may now have to worry less that in the future private sector associates of influential politicians will leapfrog them to top positions...

Mainstream Turkey commentators have put the focus on Agbal vs Albayrak as “sane” vs “insane” (my words) economic policy. But I also see this as a victory of the “gray” over the “blue”.