Despite Mamadi Doumbouya’s misgivings about the powerful Turkish conglomerate Albayrak, the ruling junta has no choice but to work with the group. To general surprise, Alport Conakry, the subsidiary set up in 2018, won a contract worth an estimated $200m in April for the extension of Conakry’s Ahmed Sekou Toure International Airport. Albayrak is one of the principal tools of influence wielded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will be