Hanzade Doğan Boyner

Shares of D-Market Electronic Services and Trading, also known as Hepsiburada, rose nearly 12 percent in their U.S. stock market debut on Thursday, giving the Turkish e-commerce platform a market value of $4.38 billion.

The Aydın Doğan Foundation will boost efforts to empower women and girls in science to establish gender equality, the foundation’s chairwoman, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, said on Feb. 8, while addressing a U.N. conference.

The founder of Turkey's leading internet company Doğan Online, Hanzade Doğan Boyner, spoke on May 20 about the importance of education at a gathering with some 36 of the most successful female students of the Aydın Doğan Foundation (ADV), telling the students to pursue their dreams by going to university and completing their degrees. 

The 21st Aydın Doğan Award was granted to Turkish contemporary painter Neş'e Erdok on May 9 at a ceremony. 

Hepsiburada.com, the largest e-commerce platform in Turkey and the surrounding region, has established a research and development (R&D) center in Istanbul to boost innovative and indigenous solutions. 

The new R&D center will offer technological support to Turkey's rapidly growing e-commerce sector, the company said in a statement on April 24. 

Some 118 projects by undergraduate communication students received a host of prizes at the 28th Young Communicators' Competition organized by the Aydın Doğan Foundation (ADV) at the Cibali campus of Kadir Has Universty in Istanbul on Feb. 21.

Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an "American carnage" of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry.

Arts and culture are a must for free thought, Aydın Doğan Foundation President Hanzade Doğan Boyner has said, adding that only societies with free thinking can move forward.

Companies will share business models that create synergy and transformation on Retail Days, a leading summit for Turkish retailers set to start on Nov. 23, Doğan Online and Hepsiburada.com founder and chair Hanzade Doğan Boyner said. 

Having achieved important progress in girls' access to primary education through a series of successful campaigns, Turkey now needs to revive the same mobilization spirit to keep girls in higher education, according to Candan Fetvacı. Staying focused remains a key issue in tackling girls' problems, the Aydın Doğan Foundation head tells the Hürriyet Daily News