While in Ankara for university study, Yeşilyurt decided to perform arm wrestling. For this reason, she searched for organizations serving visually impaired people unaware of knowing about the sport clubs specialized for disabled people. In 2016, a weightlifting coach for visually impaired sportspeople she met, recommended her to start weightlifting sport. She had a strong physical body structure she had developed in village life. Already in 2017, she became Turkish champion.[1] This time, her coach encouraged her for judo, and she performed both weightlifting and judo.[1][2]
In February 2017, she became the runner-up at the Turkish Para Judo Championship. She was then admitted to the Turkey national para judo team. A few months later that year, she debuted internationally at a tournament in Latvia winning her first medal as runner-up. At the 2018 IBSA Powerlifting and Bench Press World Championships in Luxor, Egypt, she took gold medal in bench press and the silver medal in powerlifting.[1][2]
In 2022, she became world champion at the IBSA Judo World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan.[3] At the 2023 European Para Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, she won the gold medal in the −57 Ü J1 event.[4]
