‘Turkey’s Got Talent’ singer left severely disabled after she was shot in the head by her stalker reveals how she’s learnt to walk and talk again as she documents her incredible recovery in TikTok videos

• Mutla Kaya was left severely disabled after her stalker shot her in the head
• But she has been documenting her recovery in a string of TikTok videos
• Kaya, now 28, was a finalist on the Turkish version of Britain’s Got Talent 

A Turkish singer who was left severely disabled after her stalker shot her in the head has revealed her incredible eight-year recovery journey in a series of TikToks. 

Mutla Kaya was left severely disabled after her stalker tracked her down and shot her in the head, days after she made it through to the final round of the Turkish equivalent of Britain’s Got Talent. 

She was left with a bullet in her brain, and was unable to walk or talk, but was still mentally herself after the attack perpetrated by a man who had for years threatened to kill her if she did not marry him. 

26-year-old Veysel Ercan was charged with attempted murder. Reports said Kaya was shot by an assailant who fired a bullet from the garden through the back window into the house.

But Ercan was allowed to walk free after serving just seven years of his 15-year sentence in January. 

Mutla, now 28, revealed that she learned how to talk again through online videos, and still forces herself to do hours of physical exercise every day. 

She documents and shares her journey to her more than two million followers, and is the star of a Channel 4 documentary, called ‘My Name Is Happy’, that will be broadcast at 8pm on Sunday night. 

Mutla Kaya (pictured) has more than two million followers on TikTok

She still has a bullet lodged in her brain after being shot by her stalker

Her videos are a mix of day-in-the-life videos, as well as short clips of her going through physical therapy and using her wheelchair

Her videos are a mix of day-in-the-life videos, as well as short clips of her going through physical therapy and using her wheelchair. 

Mutla told the Times: ‘I wanted people to see I was still smiling.’

But despite her positive outlook, she admitted that every day is an uphill battle for her and her family. 

‘It’s been nearly eight years but it feels like 80. I’ve just been sitting here, in pain,’ she said. 

‘But then I can see that my parents are in pain too, and so are many other people. 

‘On social media there are so many people who get strength from me. So I keep struggling on.’ 

Despite her positive outlook, she admitted that every day is an uphill battle for her and her family

Mutla was a finalist on the Turkish equivalent of Britain’s Got Talent

She was just 20 when she made it onto the show’s final stages

Her brothers and sister have to move her from room to room, and have to feed and bathe her as she still isn’t able to move independently. 

And beyond the damage caused by her stalker, her family have been torn apart by male violence in another sickening way. 

Three years ago, Mutla’s older sister, Dilek, who was her full-time carer at the time, was murdered by a soldier she was dating, who killed her with his service weapon. 

Since she was attacked, Mutla and her family have campaigned in Turkey to get the country to strengthen protections for women.   

They are are calling for harsher sentencing for offenders, and encouraging women to speak up when they suffer from male violence. 

Turkey does not currently have a comprehensive set of data that revealed the extent of violence against women in the country. 

According to media analysis, more than 2,500 women were killed between 2010 and 2020, many of them by their current or former partners. 

But this doesn’t not account for unreported murders, and campaigners say that there are far more of these.  

Mutla’s sister, Songul, said she gets messages on social media every few days from women who are being abused need her help. 

‘Women think, ‘I’m facing this violence, I will be killed.’ Then they hide it, because of shame and fear,’ she said. 

‘All over Turkey there are thousands of women being killed and buried and they’re not even in the news. We’re just the ones who are making noise,’ she added. 

The family are calling for harsher sentencing for offenders, and encouraging women to speak up when they suffer from male violence. 

While women’s rights are protected under Turkey’s secular constitution, the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly undermined them. 

He has also called women who don’t have children ‘incomplete’ and presided over a police and judicial system that routinely fails to prevent femicide, and hands down insignificant sentences to men who murder women. 

On top of this, Turkey withdrew from a Council of Europe framework designed to support victims of gender-based violence, the Istanbul Convention, which was hailed at the time by the AKP, Erdoğan’s party.

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