Çağla Akalın (born 17 June 1990) is a Turkish actress, model, columnist, singer, and human rights activist. In 2013, she became the first trans beauty pageant title holder at the Miss Queen competition for transgender women in Turkey. She is also Turkey's first transgender model. In 2013, she revealed in an interview with ''

Hürriyet ''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948. , it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...

'' that she had chosen her first name and surname after model

Çağla Şıkel Çağla Şıkel (born 2 January 1979) is a Turkish model, actress and TV presenter. Early life Çağla Şıkel was born on 2 January 1979 in Istanbul as the second child of Asuman and Hüseyin Şıkel. Her father was a financial advisor of Aze ...

and singer

Demet Akalın Demet Akalın (born 23 April 1972) is a Turkish singer and former model. Due to the popular songs she has released since the middle of the 2000s, she has become one of the most recognizable names of Turkish pop music. Akalın, who was born in G� ...

, respectively. In 2015, with her role in the movie ''Köpek'', Akalın became Turkey's first transgender actress to get a leading role.

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