- Yildiz Yüksek: Anybody in her position would give up easily. But she is not like that. "If I'm doing this I will go to the end no matter what." That's who she is.
- Ilke Özyüksel: Nobody knew that but I used to cry a lot at the time. I cried almost every night. No, they didn't know. They still don't know.
- Veli Ozan Çakir: Not many federation president can hear an athlete saying "I will brake the world record, Chief!" and see that she does.
- Ilke Özyüksel: I had my slippers on. I had to borrow my mom's sports shoes. They were like 3-4 size larger for me. That's how I started my first running exercise. In jeans and shoes 3-4 size larger.
- Murat Kocakaya: There is a girl sitting in front of you. She has many difficulties. She says that she is a pentathlete. A sports with five different branches. But you see fire in her eyes.
- Klaus Schormann: Some years ago when she was a young lady still in youth, she started in her first competition. And what was amazing for all of us when we saw her first time, it was her running style, also the aesthetic in which way she is running. And then in the combination with the shooting, she always catched up from behind.