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Cheerleader of the Week 2016: Ayda

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“I had an amazing childhood,” she says. “Turkey is beautiful. We were born and raised on the water. If it wasn’t for my twin sister, I probably would still be home. I’m very close to our family.”

When she and her sister were 14, they enrolled in a private international high school in Sedona, Arizona.

“There were people from Germany, China, all over Asia,” she says. “It was 100 kids in total, but we probably had over 30 countries represented.”

The red rocks were a drastic change from a city of 18 million people, but she thrived in her new world.