Muhterem Nur was a Turkish film actress and pop music singer.
14 Facts About Muhterem Nur
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Muhterem Nur lost her 16-year-old mother at her birth and never knew her father.
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Muhterem Nur was raised by her maternal aunt, whom she called "mother".
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Muhterem Nur was renamed "Olga" as a result of Yugoslavian regime's assimilation campaign.
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Muhterem Nur spent her childhood in Eyup, where she attended the primary school.
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Muhterem Nur's husband died on March 3,2013, following a heart bypass surgery he underwent in November 2012.
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Muhterem Nur died on 20 March 2020 at the Istinye State Hospital.
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Muhterem Nur continued to play in movies as an extra, earning five times more than she received in the factory.
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Muhterem Nur played as supporting actress in more than twenty movies before she got a lead role in the 1958 movie, Uc Arkadas, in which she portrayed a blind girl.
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Muhterem Nur confessed that once, in 1972, she was so destitute, she was unable to even buy a simit, Turkish bagel.
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Muhterem Nur returned to cinema and starred sparsely in movies until 2002.
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Muhterem Nur is considered the first real star of Turkish cinema.
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Muhterem Nur portrayed the ignored and discriminated-against woman, digressing from role of the bourgeoisie woman.
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Muhterem Nur was known as the Yesilcam's most weepy actress, who at the same time drew tears and made spectators tear handkerchiefs.