Ekici started performing para-karate at the age of 44 in 2019, encouraged by her karateka daughter, who had been performing since six years at that time.[1][2] In 2020, she performed para-karate with sticks trained by her coach.[1] She is a member of Katana Sports Club in Ankara and performs para-karate training twice a week coached by Turgay Okumuş. At the opening of the 2021 Turkish Seniors and Veterans Karate Championship in Adana, she performed a kata show with crutches.[3] She competes in the kata K-30 category.[5] K-30 is the physical disability classification of the kata event for the wheelchair para-karateka with impairment in the legs.[6]
The first national para-karate championship in Turkey was held at Kocaeli in December 2022.[7] She competed there, and became runner-up after Nesrin Cavadzade.[1][2] She became so Turkey's one of the first two para-karatekas.[2]
In February 2023, she performed a para-kata show with her teammate at the Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Hospital in Ankara to motivate the physically disabled military personnel for para-karate.[8]
Ekici is a member of the national team. She competed in the kata K-30 event at the 2022 European Karate Championships held in Gaziantep, Turkey, and won the bronze medal for the first time in the national team's history.[5][9]
