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Visual Designer. In 2013, she took a bicycle and incorporated it step by step into her life. Now she owns, one city and the other folding, two bicycles. She uses bicycles in Istanbul, where she lives, and in every city she visits. She is one of the representatives of the Cyclists Transport Platform who works to promote bicycle transportation in Turkey and to create awareness on this subject. She visited Berlin, for the project Berlin Istanbul Bicycle Talks series, designed with the partnership of Changing Cities and Cyclist Transportation Platform.

Zeynep Arapoğlu, one of the seven women who founded the Women on Bicycle Initiative, participated in the Facebook Community Leadership Program and ran the My Bicycle My City project with the support she received from the program. She prepared and presented the Trapeze Frame program, where women on bicycle stories were shared at Açık Radyo, with Seçil Zor during two broadcast periods. Arapoğlu voicing, in Turkey the majority of the cycling community are formed by men and she wants raising awareness about the thousands of women cycling in the country by sharing their voice and experiences, to be able to let them make their own choices and aims to increase the number of women who ride bicycles.