He was a high school student at Kayseri Özel Hisarcıklıoğlu Fen Lisesi in Kayseri, Turkey."Furkan Doğan'ın karnesi ailesine iletilmek üzere okul müdürüne verildi" , Zaman, 18 June 2010"Furkan Doğan'ın örnek karnesi", haber7, 18 June 2010 He wanted to study medicine. He had planned to visit New York in the summer of 2010."Mourning Furkan Dogan", The Wall Street Journal, 5 June 2010, Nichole Sobechi Demotix
