Bergen (born Belgin Sarılmışer; 15 July 1958 – 14 August 1989) was a Turkish singer.

[3] She was one of the most prominent Arabesque music stars of Turkey in the 1980s, breaking sales records with her fourth studio album, Acıların Kadını ("Woman of Pains").

[4][5] Her husband, Halis Serbest, threw nitric acid on her face resulting in blindness in her right eye.

Noticing Bergen's talent for music, the teachers encouraged her to study at the conservatory after graduation.

She had to drop out of school due to financial difficulties and worked as a civil servant in the PTT for a while, after officially raising her age with a court decision.

[8] Her stage life began in 1977 when she went to the Feyman Night Club in Ankara to have fun with her friends, and she accepted a job offer from the club owner, İlhan Feyman after her friends persuaded her to take the stage.

[9] In 1981, Bergen left Ankara to do business in Adana where she met Halis Serbest.

Every night he sent flowers to the singer, went to the club where Bergen worked and watched her from the front table.

Bergen ended the relationship when it turned out that her marriage, which she thought was real, was a lie arranged by Serbest.

After being subjected to violence by Serbest many times, Bergen left Adana and returned to Ankara and took to the stage again in nightclubs.

In 1979, she started performing as an artist in Ankara Başkent Casino with Bülent Ersoy, İbrahim Tatlıses and Müjde Ar.

Bergen said the following about the incident:"Towards the end of our relationship, I found a woman's panties at home.

On the night of October 31, 1982, at the gate of the New York pavilion in İzmir Alsancak, Bergen was about to get into a taxi with her mother, when the hired attacker threw a bucket of nitric acid on the singer.

I told Bergen many times that she should not marry this man who is a punk, that he could not make her happy.

My daughter, who sang Turkish music in nightclubs, became a sought-after artist in a short time with her voice.

Onur Erol, the famous plastic surgeon of the period, who followed the event from the press, voluntarily helped Bergen.

In 1983, the artist entered the studio with Özşeker in İzmir and prepared the album Kardeşiz Kader, consisting of 12 songs, with a limited budget.

Bergen made her acting debut in 1987 with the movie "Woman of Pain", written and directed by Ülkü Erakalın.

The artist, who left the stage for a while, released the albums "Burn him too God", Sevgimin Bedeli and İstemiyorum under the musical direction of Selami Şahin, Özer Şenay and Cengiz Tekin.

Bergen, who made peace with Serbes, who was released from prison in 1988, left her music and cinema life behind and then divorced him April 1989.

Returning to the stage in June of the same year, the artist presented his last album Yıllar Affetmez before her death in 1989.

[17]In the city she went to for the promotion of her latest album Yıllar Affetmez, she was shot and killed at the age of 31 by Serbest in Adana.

Her mother said about the attack:"Bergen had a concert in Kayseri, Halis came in front of the hotel where we stay and threatened, 'If you don't come back to me, I will kill you all'.

[23] In 2022, a biopic film was made about Bergen, with actress Farah Zeynep Abdullah portraying her.