She is the daughter of the Turkish media proprietor Aydın Doğan, who was chairman of Dogan Holding before she took over 1 January 2010.

Doğan finished high school at Lycée Français Saint Michel in Istanbul.

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

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 is a board member of the Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı, TEGV), Turkish-American Businessmen's Association, TABA; Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association, KAGİDER and the Third Sector Foundation of Turkey, TÜSEV.