In 2019, Çalıkuşu appeared in her first international event, skipping the Turkish team at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

Throwing third rocks on the team with fourth Beytullah Özkan, second Kadir Polat and lead Nisanur Kaya, she led Turkey to a 1–5 round robin record.

The same year, Çalıkuşu served as the alternate on the Turkish junior rink led by Mihriban Polat at the 2019 World Junior-B Curling Championships.

[3] Çalıkuşu played lead on the Turkish team that represented the nation at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Champéry, Switzerland.

After three consecutive losses, the team won five straight games which included wins over higher seeded Germany, Denmark and Norway.

After a fourth-place finish at the Sundbyberg Open, the team advanced to the final of the WCT Tallinn Ladies Challenger where they lost to Evelīna Barone.