Gizem Karaca
Pageant Contestant
Actress and model, she was the first runner up in the Miss Turkey competition in 2011, which qualified her to go the the Miss World pageant that same year.
She spent most of her early life and schooling in Canada and the United States. She returned to Turkey for high school and studied social sciences at Istanbul University.
Besides Turkish, which is her native language, she speaks English and French fluently. English because of her international upbringing and French because she studied French language and literature.
She loves her pet dog Kito.
She used her pageant career to get her start in television and film acting like 2007 Miss World and Miss Turkey contestant Selen Soyder.