His father, Kâzım Taşkent, who was the founder of Yapı ve Kredi Bankası established a publishing company to commemorate his son.
[2] Doğan Kardeş supported many children who later on made names as important musicians like Suna Kan and İdil Biret.
Next year Doğan Kardeş organized a campaign to import an elephant to Turkish zoos and published an open letter to Nehru.
The cover of Doğan Kardeş dated 4 May 1950 featured a caricature created by Selma Emiroğlu, the first female cartoonist in Turkey.
[4] The other periodic publications of the Doğan Kardeş Publication Company were Aile ("Family") between 1947 and 1952, 23 issues; Hayat ("Life") between 1956 and 1979, the first intaglio magazine of Turkey (editor Şevket Rado); Bizler ("We" for Yapı Kredi people) in 1973; Sanat Dünyamız ("Our Art World") in 1974: and Yapı Kredi Economic Review (in English) in 1986.