Dr. Türktan, appointed in 2015 as the Founding Chair of the W20 - Women 20, the outreach group of G20 as a platform to enhance the women’s status and participation in the respective economies of the G20 countries.

She is serving in the Boards of various companies and all together she has accumulated almost 100 years of Board membership experience. She makes speeches and writes articles on the topics of leadership and organizational improvements, management, future of work and corporate governance as was well as gender.

Dr. Turktan has been invited to be a member of the Advisory Council for Gender and Development for the World Bank Group in 2016.

In September 2018, Dr. Gülden Turktan received the “Public Recognition Award of the Second Eurasian Women Forum of 2018” in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She has been recently elected to be the President of the Board of International Women Forum in Turkey.