Filiz Vural is a former Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 beauty contest

Beauty contest

A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

ant and Miss Europe

Miss Europe

Miss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established in 1928 and re-established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr...

 1971.

Biography

Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper Hürriyet

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, and won the title 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....

 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

, Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

, and was crowned Miss Europe on September 18, 1971. She became so the second Turkish beauty queen following Günseli Başar

Günseli Basar

Günseli Başar is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1952.-Biography:She was born on January 22, 1932 to an officer's family in Diyarbakır, where her father was stationed. However, her birth was registered some time later in Erzurum due to her father's transfer...

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Currently, she works as chief designer at a renowned Turkish jewelry manufacturer. In 2005, she was awarded silver prize at the 2005 Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 International Pearl Jewelry Contest for her design of a pin inspired by Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

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Filiz Vural is married to Engin Çağlar, a former film actor.