Aydın Doğan
Chairman of the Board
Born in 1936 in Kelkit, Aydın Doğan completed his primary education there and his secondary education in Erzincan. From 1956 to 1960, he attended the Academy of Economics and Commerce in Istanbul and established his frst industrial enterprise in 1974. In the years that followed, he was frst a member of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) Assembly, where he later served as a Board Member and subsequently a Board Member of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB). Doğan entered the publishing business in 1979 when he took over Milliyet newspaper; today he is the most experienced national newspaper owner in Turkey. He served as the Chairman of the Turkish Union of Newspaper Owners between 1986 and 1996. In 1998, at the meeting of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) held in Tokyo, Doğan was elected to the association’s board, becoming the frst Turkish citizen to serve in this capacity. In 1999, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Medal of the Republic of Turkey. Doğan has received honorary doctorates from Girne American University in 1999, Aegean University in 2000, Baku State University in 2001 and Marmara University in 2005.
Non-Executive
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