Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, née Doğan, (born 1965) is the daughter of the Turkish media proprietor

Media proprietor

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 Aydın Doğan

Aydin Dogan

Aydın Doğan is a Turkish entrepreneur and businessman.-Biography:Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit, Aydin Dogan got his elementary and secondary school education in Kelkit and finished high-school in Erzincan...

 and a businesswoman. On January 1, 2010, she became the chairwoman of the Doğan Holding

Dogan Holding

Doğan Holding is one of the top industrial conglomerates in Turkey operating in the energy, media, industry, trade, insurance and tourism industries...

 as her father stepped down. Between 2007 and 2010, she served as the first female chairperson of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association

Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association

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 (TÜSİAD), the top association of businesspeople in Turkey

Turkey

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.

Doğan finished the high school at Lycée Français Saint Michel in Istanbul. She was educated in sociology

Sociology

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 at the Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

 earning a bachelor's degree. She went later to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 to study business administration. She is married to businessman Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ.

Since 1996, she has been in the broadcast media business and has initiated the joint venture with AOL Time Warner in establishing CNN Türk

CNN Turk

CNN Türk is the Turkish version of the popular cable news channel CNN. CNN Türk is a nationwide channel broadcasting exclusively in Turkey, owned by Time Warner and Doğan Medya Grubu, broadcasting since October 11, 1999. It has its headquarters in Istanbul....

. Prior to that, she served in the Milliyet

Milliyet

Milliyet is a major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950.-History:Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950...

Group, where she was responsible for finance, and worked in the establishment of Alternatif Bank

Alternatif Bank

Abank was founded in 1991 by the Doğan Grubu and was enlisted in 1995 with 20% of its shares at the Istanbul Stock Exchange. In 1996, 80% the bank was acquired by Anadolu Grubu, later the share of the group rose to 96%....

, where she later became a board member. She established and managed the mail order

Mail order

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 company in MILPA CO in a joint venture with the German

Germany

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 Quelle Company.

She is a board member of the Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey , Turkish-American Businessmen's Association, TABA; Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association, KAGİDER and the Third Sector Foundation of Turkey, TÜSEV. Yalçındag is also the founding Director of the Women’s Initiative for Turkey in the European Union

European Union

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and the founding board member of the Aydin Dogan Foundation.

She was a member of the executive committee and head of the Social Affairs Committee of TÜSİAD before becoming the president.

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