Vuslat Doğan Sabancı

Prominent Turkish businessman Ali Sabancı and his wife, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, sustained serious injuries in a maritime incident near Leros island in the Dodecanese while on vacation.

Journalist and columnist Vahap Munyar has been officially announced as the new editor-in-chief of the Hürriyet newspaper, while Demirören Media Group CEO Mehmet Soysal has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Hürriyet Gazetecilik.

From Angola to India, women entrepreneurs are changing the lives of their communities with their innovative ideas. In cooperation with other international leading media, Hürriyet Daily News highlights the stories of women who could inspire others across the world.

Vuslat Doğan Sabancı also touched upon daily Hürriyet’s activities to raise awareness about violence against women and gender-based discrimination.

No country can underestimate Turkey’s international struggle to counter the threats to the country’s security, Doğan Group Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan said on feb. 15 at this year’s first meeting of the Doğan Media Group’s Publishing Principles Committee, a board supervising media ethics in all Doğan Holding-linked media outlets, including daily Hürriyet and the Hürriyet Daily News.

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.

Turkey aims to complete the construction of a 911-kilometer wall along the border with Syria by spring 2018, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Aydın Doğan Foundation, the United Nation’s Women’s Organization, daily Hürriyet, Fitside and Boğaziçi University have organized a “violence against women” event at the university aiming to raise awareness on the issue.

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

Two Doğan Media Group companies, Hürriyet Gazetecilik A.Ş. and Doğan Gazetecilik A.Ş., released separate statements to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on April 10, saying that reports on the "sale of daily Hürriyet and daily Posta do not reflect the truth."