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As Kadriye attended a referee course, her two-years younger sister Dilan Deniz Gökçek also followed her footsteps.
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Kadriye Gokcek
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She was a Fédération internationale de football association listed woman referee since 2008. Inspired by the Turkish woman football referees Lale Orta and Hilal Tuba Tosun Ayer, she decided to become a football referee. After completing her study in physical education at Gazi University in Ankara, she pursued a civil servant profession as a sports expert at the General Directorate of Youth and Sports, a subunit of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Kadriye Gökçek began her sport career as an assistant referee on August 10, 1996 in the A2 Ligi.
After serving one and half years as an assistant referee in the TFF Third League, she qualified to supervise matches as referee in that league on January 17, 1999. Since then, she oversees in various levels of competitions.
In 2008, Gökçek qualified to bear the Fédération internationale de football association badge. She supervised matches in the Group 8 of the 2010 Union of European Football Associations Women"s U-19 Championship First qualifying round held in Hungary between September 19 and 24, 2009.
She served as referee at the first round of the 2011 Union of European Football Associations Women"s U-17 Championship qualifying competition held from October 15 to 22, 2010 in Northern Ireland.
At the 2012 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Under-17 Championship qualification, she officiated four games in total. The matches of Group 1 played in Poland, the game Switzerland against Georgia on October 15, 2011, and the match Poland against Switzerland on October 20, 2011, followed by the Group 3 matches held in Denmark, between Netherlands and Denmark on April 26, 2012 as well as between Finland and Netherlands on May 1, 2012. The final match of the 2012 World Deaf Football Championships played between the Russian and the American women"s teams in Ankara, Turkey on July 18, 2012, was supervised by Kadriye Gökçek.
In 2012, she oversaw the 2013 Union of European Football Associations Women"s U-19 Championship First qualifying round matches of Switzerland against Israel on October 20 and Netherlands against Israel on October 22 in Cham, Switzerland.
On January 10, 2013, it was reported that Kadriye Gökçek retired from active referee career on her own will after serving 17-years lougitude
