İlkay Özdemir

Although earned success in many magic competitions, she hesitated a while to continue with a professional magician career because she felt she drew no sufficient attention in public.

However, she abandoned the idea to pursue her mother's profession in public relations, and decided to devote herself wholly to stage magic.

She regrets her participation because the illusion show of spoon bending by Uri Geller turned into a supposed psychic effect.

[3][4] During a ceremony at the Turkish Patent Institute in November 2006, she amazed then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with her magic performance of cards, banknotes and doves.

The show was held in order to draw public attention to the endangered fish stock through pollution in the Marmara Sea.