Betül Mardin

Mardin was born on 1926 in Istanbul. She is the second child of the Mardin family. She is the older sister of famous music producer Arif Mardin.^[2]

She graduated from Arnavutköy American College for Girls and BBC Television Course, rose to the presidency of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in 1995^[3] and became the first Turkish female president of IPRA with this task. She is considered a master in public relations with this award, which is one of the few in the world, with the title "Member Emeritus", which was later given to her by the International Public Relations Association.^[4] She is a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Public Relations.^[5][6]

Mardin was married twice, first to Akgün Usta^[7] with whom she had a daughter and second to Turkish actor Haldun Dormen^[8] with whom she had a son.