Singer who was shot in the head on Turkey's Got Talent wakes from her coma a month after the attack

A 19-year-old singer who was shot in the head after receiving death threats for appearing on a Turkish TV talent contest has emerged from a coma and is now recovering.

Mutlu Kaya wowed audiences with her voice after appearing on Sesi Cok Guzel, a show similar to Britain's Got Talent, but her talents angered some conservatives who believe women should play a more traditional role.

The young singer did not bow to the threats but was shot in the head at home in the ultra-conservative Kurdish-majority southeastern Diyarbakir province in May. She's been in intensive care ever since.

Miraculous recovery: Doctors say that she has now miraculously woken and looks set to make a recovery after the shocking attack that shocked a country deeply divided over a woman's place

But doctors say that she has now miraculously woken and looks set to make a recovery after the shocking attack that shocked a country deeply divided over a woman's place.

'She has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room. Her overall health is good. She has regained consciousness and is able to communicate with us,' her doctor said.

'At first she was answering with one word answers but now she can say 8-10 words. She is totally aware of what's going on around her,' he added.

However, the young woman is on a liquid diet and faces a long hard road to recovery which will require months of intense physiotherapy. 

Kaya had been appearing on Sesi Cok Guzel on the Turkish private channel Fox and was being mentored by Sibel Can, one of Turkey's best known folk pop singers.

But the young woman had received death threats from people in her Kurdish-majority home town known for strongly conservative values where women are expected to play a traditional role. 

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

The attack on Kaya came at a time of intensifying anger in Turkey over the extent of violence against women, with hundreds of wives killed by their husbands every year.

According to the non-governmental Platform to Stop Violence Against Women, 286 women were murdered in Turkey in 2014 and 134 so far in 2015.

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