Yıldız Aras (born November 10, 1977, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish karateka competing in the kumite +60 kg and open divisions.

Aras is member of the Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü Karate team.

[citation needed] As of May 2009, she is world's best in women's kumite open division.

She is a graduate of the School of Physical Education and Sports at the Marmara University in Istanbul.

[2] Inspired from the TV films depicting martial arts that became very popular in Turkey in the late 1980s, she entered in 1987, at the age of only 10, into a karate course in her neighborhood.