Çağla Kubat

Çağla Kubat — Biography

Çağla Kubat was born on 16 November 1979 in İzmir, though DBpedia and some language editions of Wikipedia give 1978. A granddaughter of former Interior Minister Hasan Ferit Kubat, she graduated top of her class from the Italian High School and earned a mechanical engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University. In 2001 she was first runner-up at Miss Turkey and went on to represent Turkey at Miss Universe that year.

Racing for the Fenerbahçe sailing and windsurfing team, she won the IFCA European slalom championship in 2005, founded her own windsurfing school in Alaçatı, and competed on the PWA World Tour for years; she is also active in snowboarding, wakeboarding and horseback riding. Her acting credits include the series Sağır Oda, Kuzey Rüzgârı and Arka Sokaklar, and she has hosted programs on national television.

She married American surfer Jimmy Diaz in 2013, and their daughter Selin was born in 2014; Selin has since followed her mother into windsurfing. Kubat lost her father, Murat Kubat, in January 2024.