Aydın Doğan

Aydın Doğan ( born April 15, 1936 in Kelkit, Gümüşhane ) is a Turkish businessman and until the end of 2009 CEO of Doğan Yayin Holding.

Biography

Doğan studied at the Istanbul Economic and Commercial College (later at Marmara University ), and already in 1958 founded his first transportation companies. Until the late 1970s, he worked in passenger and goods transport, pharmaceutical and construction industries. In 1974 he founded his first industrial operation and increased in 1979 with the acquisition of the daily Milliyet into a media business. In 1998 he was elected as the first Turkish member of the board of the World Association of Newspapers. Since 1996, Doğan Aydın Doğan Foundation operated via its also a benefactor to the building of schools and sports fields, all carrying his name.

The company he founded, Aydın Doğan Holding has ensured access to careers in the finance, insurance, energy ( petroleum Ofisi ), tourism and industrial sectors especially through their media exposure to Turkey for attention. With his media company, which unites both the major Turkish newspapers Posta, Hürriyet and Milliyet and the television station Kanal D and CNN Türk under one roof and thus has a dominant position, he has created critics who him taking advantage of market power accused and him a " Turkish Berlusconi ' called.

Doğan was the founder of the label DMC Müzik Doğan and Doğan KITAP of the publishers.

At the end of 2009, he announced his retirement from the presidency of his holding company known; Was succeeded by his daughter Arzuhan Doğan Yalçindag. Dogan's retreat was seen as an attempt to calm the tax dispute with the Turkish government.

Tax dispute

Doğan is in 2009 a fine of almost half a billion euros to pay extra for a sale of shares of its television division to the Axel - Springer -Verlag in 2006. He suspects that this sanction is politically motivated because his newspapers critical reports on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan and the Deniz Feneri scandal publish.

In a court case for tax evasion Doğan was acquitted. In a telephone conversation, which was released in Februa 2014, Erdogan told his Justice Minister, to provide for a hard court judgment against Aydin Dogan.

Awards

Dogan was the 'Golden Victoria " awarded the Germany Foundation integration and 2009, the Federal Order of Merit in 2008.