Agricultural and Trade Relations Between Ukraine and Turkey | Agricultural Ambassador Ukraine
“Burcu Çetinkaya is one of Türkiye’s best known lady figures and national athletes. She started her education successfully graduating from the best high school in Türkiye ‘American Robert College’.
Then she went to Babson College in Boston for Business Administration education for 2 years and graduated from Koç University in Türkiye with an Economics degree.
Along with her education, as a young girl she won the Turkish Snowboard Championship in 2003.
She did an internship in Volkswagen headquarters in France for 2 months.
She started her corporate career in the Doğuş Corporation Business Development Department. Continued in İlce Transportation and İlce Automotive. Shortly after that she started her rally career and became 5 times Turkish Ladies Champion. Among men also she got many awards worldwide and in Türkiye too.
She got the Abu Dhabi Special Award in WRC 2010 (World Rally Championship). She also got the Eurosport Special Award in 2010 by becoming the only woman who scored points in IRC history becoming 7th in Scotland Rally 2010. She also became the highest ranking lady in one WRC rally in the last 10 years by becoming 13 overall among top male competitors in WRC Rally of Türkiye 2010.
She is well known in the world media with her press presentations and interviews in English, Arabic, French and Italian. Discovery Channel prepared a documentary of her and broadcasted it world wide. Red Bull also prepared a long documentary on her success story and broadcasted that worldwide as well.
She is now living in Ankara and has one child. After taking a break in her rally career in 2013-2014 and 2016, she came back in 2017 and won her record breaking 6th title of Turkish Ladies Champion.
She prepared and presented a TV show on the automotive industry on TV 24 for 6 years and a live TV Show on Bloomberg HT for 2 years.
She presented a TV show in Ramadan on A Haber in 2013.
She prepared and presented a TV show on WRC rallies in TRT 3 Spor actively doing interviews in French and English and a TV Show about people and places and traveling around Turkey for Cine5 TV.
She prepared global news for Ekotürk TV in 2020. She is currently a global representative of Agro TV, the leading agricultural TV channel of Türkiye.
She is also the ambassador for Inara foundation, which was founded by Arwa Damon.
Burcu was a columnist for Star Newspaper and now she is the editor in Turkiye Newspaper of the automotive industry page on Mondays and an has an interview page on Sundays.
Burcu can speak Turkish, English, French, Italian, German, Kurdish and she is actively learning Arabic and Russian…”
First 4 minutes Translated – Parts in English – Judge up to 10 minutes