The appointment of some deputy ministerial positions was published in the Official Gazette with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's signature.
Deputy Minister of National Defence Celal Sami Tüfekçi was dismissed and replaced by Musa Heybet. Musa Heybet graduated from Selçuk University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, in 1990.
He started his career in the public sector at Konya Metropolitan Municipality and passed the Administrative Court Judge Candidate exam in 1994, stepping into the path of judgeship. Heybet, who was appointed President of the Ankara Administrative Court in 2011, was assigned as the Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice in 2015.
Heybet was appointed Deputy Minister of National Defence, and the decision was published in the Official Gazette on September 14, 2024.
Celal Sami Tüfekçi started working as the Head of Space at the former Undersecretariat of Defence Industries SSM (Defence Industry Agency/SSB) in 2016. He was later appointed as the Deputy Undersecretary at SSM. Once the SSM was converted to SSB, he was titled vice president at SSB.
Tüfekçi was responsible for the Engine and Power Systems Department, Quality Control Test and Certification, Operation Support, and Land Platforms.
With President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's decree, Tüfekçi was appointed deputy defence minister in May 2023.
