Bergen

Bergen was a Turkish singer who rose to fame in the 1980s with her arabesque style of music. She broke the sales record with her fourth studio album, Acıların Kadını ("Woman of Pains"), which was based on her own life story. She became one of the symbols and faces of violence against women in Turkey, as her husband, Halis Serbest, threw nitric acid on her face in 1982, resulting in blindness in her right eye. She continued singing and covering her blind eye with her long hair or sunglasses. She divorced Serbest in 1989, but he shot and killed her in the same year while she was on a tour. Her tragic life and death inspired a biographical film that was released in 2022. She is remembered as one of the most prominent and influential singers of Turkish arabesque music.