I asked you for the 3 most recent examples you could think of, and your recent examples were decades old.
You have now linked me to a paper discussing privatization happening in the 1980s and 1990s.
If you want to make the argument that this happens frequently in the west, you need to find examples actually happening this decade. I don't feel like this should be controversial.
Turkey did become irrelevant after WWI, but is far more of a power today than it was 30 years ago, and given the relative dysfunction of the neighborhood, it's only going to get stronger.
Other autos all route physical buttons through the car's OS now. Nothing is actually directly wired to the corresponding actuators anymore. The buttons are mechanical but are basically equivalent to a touchscreen in terms of control.