Arzuhan Yalçindag

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Arzuhan Yalçindag is the CEO of Channel D, Turkey’s highest rated TV network, and Board member of the Dogan Group. Since 1996 she has been in the broadcast media business and has initiated the joint venture with AOL Time Warner in establishing CNN Turk. Prior to that she served in the Milliyet Group where she was responsible for finance, and worked in the establishment of Alternatif Bank, where she later became a Board member. She established and managed the Mail Order Company in MILPA CO in a joint venture with the German Quelle Company. She is a Board member of the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association and the Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey, one of the most effective NGOs in the country. Yalçindag is the founding Director of the Women’s Initiative for Turkey in the European Union and is the founding Board member of the Aydin Dogan Trust Foundation.

Also from 24 January 2007 she became the first woman president of TUSIAD ( Turkey's industrialist and business man association).