Tuba Yakan

Tuba Yakan (born 8 January 1991) is a Turkish karateka competing in the 55 kg kumite division. She has won multiple titles at the European and Mediterranean Games. She is married to national karateka Mehmet Yakan.

Career Yakan won her first major international title at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, where she claimed gold in the −55 kg category. In March 2015, she took silver at the 2015 European Karate Championships in Istanbul, losing the final to Emilie Thouy.

She competed at the 2015 European Games in Baku but was eliminated in the group stage.

After a break of nearly two years due to pregnancy and childbirth, she returned to competition in May 2017 at the 2017 European Karate Championships in Kocaeli, where she defeated Sara Cardin in the final to win gold.

She took bronze at the 2018 European Karate Championships in Novi Sad and went on to claim her second Mediterranean Games title at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona.

At the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria, Yakan won bronze in the −55 kg category after defeating Arianne Miles Gonzales in the third-place match. Later that year, she won gold at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, defeating Abouriche Louiza in the final.

In 2023, she captured the gold medal in the −55 kg category at the 2023 World Karate Championships in Budapest, Hungary.