First time when i saw Esra Kiraz she was only 16, her competetion spirit looked like a mini & female version of my young career. She has won some medals in Europe & World in junior competetions and she finally won the Europeans in 2011 as a senior puller against the powerful Russian Tatiana Istomina after tough hook wars. After that time she had been winning medals but not any other titles. She has very tough opponents such as Babaeva from Slovakia, Volkova from Russia and Verina from Kazakstan. But usually Volkova from Russia was her toughest opponent as they meet both at EAC and WAF while Verina competes only WAF and Babayeva had been away since 2013 WAF. Esra had some wins against Volkova but somehow she end up not winning the class. Because of Volkova's tall forearm Esra had difficult time to hook her. But once she was able to hook her then she was the one who is stronger. With time Volkova became a main target for Esra and she started to prepare herself esspecially for her. Esra