Öykü Karayel was born in Istanbul in 1990 with her single twin brother Ezgi. Cemberlitas Girls High School graduated. When she was in her final year of high school, she received a short training at the Kenter Theater academy and then in 2007 she entered the Theater Department of the University of Istanbul Conservatory. While at the Conservatory, she went to London to study theater with a five-month exchange program.