Vuslat Doğan Sabancı

Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, a former newspaper publisher in Turkey, stands as a prominent figure in both the business world and civil society. As the Vice Chair of Aydin Dogan Foundation and a board member of Dogan Group of Companies, including Hepsiburada, Turkey's leading e-commerce platform, she has played pivotal roles in these organizations.

Career
Sabancı is a self-taught contemporary artist, showcasing her works at vuslat.art. After almost two decades of making art privately, her first exhibition took place in May of 2022, “Silence”, curated by Chus Martinez at Pi Artworks Gallery in London. In June 2023, her first institutional show "Emanet" which was curated by Chus Martinez, was held at the Baksi MuseumÁ in Bayburt, north eastern side of Turkey.

In 2020, Sabancı established Vuslat Foundation, a philanthropic initiative that focuses on what it called the skill of "Generous Listening" or "hearing beyond words". The Foundation's work was launched at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, presenting Italian artist Giuseppe Penone's installation “The Listener”.

Philanthropy
A law was enacted on domestic violence following an eight-year effort on her part through the “No More Domestic Violence” campaign she has initiated while she was the chief executive officer of Hürriyet.

Sabancı also helped establish a platform to gather all Non Profit Organisations formed around issues concerning women under the same roof, and function as a pressure lobby to ensure more women could be voted into the Parliament, prior to the General Elections in 2010. As a consequence of this effort, the number of female MPs rose to 78 after the 2011 elections, from 48.