At the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, her team, led by skip Dilşat Yıldız, won three matches against Hungary, Japan and Russia, placing them eighth in the event.

While still in juniors, Polat skipped the Turkish team to a silver medal at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival at home in Erzurum.

After finishing the round robin in first place with a 3–1 record and defeating Poland in the semifinal, the team lost 7–2 to Russia's Irina Nizovtseva in the championship game.

After losing multiple close games in extra ends, the Turkish team was able to record their first victory in World Women's Championship history against Czech Republic's Alžběta Baudyšová 7–5 in Draw 17 of the event.

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

In their final game, they lost a narrow 8–7 match to Sweden's Anna Hasselborg, finishing in sixth place and just outside of the playoffs.

[19] They were able to beat Scotland in their final round robin game to finish in eighth place with an even 6–6 record in their second world championship appearance.

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.

However, because their two victories came against these two teams, they finished eighth overall and earned qualification into the 2024 World Women's Curling Championship for a third straight year.