Kamile Burcu Esmersoy is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 anchorwoman, journalist, occasional actress and beauty pageant contestant who represented her nation at Miss International.

Life and career

Esmersoy was born in İstanbul and has some Circassian ancestry. After finishing her secondary studies at Beşiktaş Lisesi, she went to Istanbul University

Istanbul University

Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...

 to study Tourism Management. After graduating, she studied Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

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After achieving 4th place at the 1997 Miss Turkey

Miss Turkey

Miss Turkey ® is a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Turkey, who personify beauty with intelligence. The first beauty contest was held on September 2, 1929 with the backing of the government, and the title holder was Feriha Tevfik....

 contest, she represented Turkey at the Miss International

Miss International

Miss International is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960.The current Miss International is Fernanda Cornejo, from Ecuador...

 beauty pageant the same year in Japan. She began her broadcasting career on a children's program aired on Kanal D

Kanal D

Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....

 and joined CNN Türk’s Sports News in 2000 and worked there until 2005 as sport presenter and co-ordinator as well as a foreign news editor. In 2006, she joined NTV

NTV Turkey

NTV is a Turkish nationwide television news channel. NTV was founded in 1996 by Turkish businessman Cavit Çağlar as the first news channel of Turkey and has partnered with MSNBC since May 2000. Aired on this channel is usually the news but also provides football games, especially La Liga matches,...

 and started presenting the Spor Servisi program. She competed in Acun Ilıcalı

Acun Ilicali

Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...

's Yok Böyle Dans reality dance competition.

She married Ferrari's advertising director Massimo Cusimano at the Turkish consulate in Paris in 2005 and they divorced in 2008.