Singer Mutlu Kaya out of coma
DİYARBAKIR (DİHA) - A 19-year-old talent show contestant is out of a coma and communicating after she was shot in the head in an attack that shocked the country.
Mutlu Kaya was shot while she was at home in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır in May and had until now been in intensive care in the Diyarbakır hospital where she is being treated.
"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 Ulaş Aktaş told. "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," the doctor said.
He added that the young woman was on a liquid diet and was being allowed to go out in a wheelchair once a day. She would however require months of physical therapy.
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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