Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu is a 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...

 ballet dancer and a former beauty contest

Beauty contest

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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...

 1982.

Biography

She was educated in ballet dancing at the Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul

Istanbul

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, Turkey

Turkey

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. She danced in the state opera

Opera

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 until she had to quit active dancing career following a meniscus

Meniscus (anatomy)

In anatomy, a meniscus is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous structure that, in contrast to articular disks, only partly divides a joint cavity. In humans it is present in the knee, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and temporomandibular joints; in other organisms they may be present in other...

 operation. Currently, she is lecturing movement science in the same university. Nazlı Deniz is also partner of a cosmetics

Cosmetics

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 company. She enjoys painting and outdoor sports like horseback riding and motocross

Motocross

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After winning 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....

 1981, Nazlı represented her country at the 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...

 beauty contest held in İstanbul, and was crowned Miss Europe on June 12, 1982. She became so the third 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...

 and Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural

Filiz Vural is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971.-Biography:Filiz participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper Hürriyet, and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at the Miss Europe beauty contest held in Tunis, Tunisia, and...

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