Background
She was born in 1991 in a low-income family to Durak Öztürk, a worker in a garment workshop, and his wife Gülizar as the third child.
She was born in 1991 in a low-income family to Durak Öztürk, a worker in a garment workshop, and his wife Gülizar as the third child.
As of the July 2012 FIDE rating list, she is ranked number 199 in the world and second in Turkey among female active players. She earned FIDE titles as Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2006, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009 and Woman Grand Master (WGM) on February 5, 2011. Already in the second class of the primary school and eight years old in 1998, she attended a chess course in her neighborhood.
Only eight months after her begin, her chess instructor İslam Osmanoğlu took Kübra to the World Youth Chess Championship held in Oropesa del March, Spain, where she placed 44th in her age category.
At the age of nine, she placed third in the under-10 category of national championship. After the 2006 Chess Olympiad in Italy, she was awarded the title Woman FIDE Master (WFM).
Kübra Öztürk was named Woman Grand Master after her success at the World Women"s Chess Club Championship held in Mardin, Turkey as the second WGM followin Betül Cemre Yıldız.