[1] Her mother Nuyan was a granddaughter of Zülüflü İsmail Paşa [tr], a son of the 31st Ottoman sultan Abdulmejid I.

[3] Kalkavan started secondary school in the USA, then returned to Turkey and studied at Kadıköy Maarif College.

[5] She went back to the United States after the newspaper was sold in 1984 and completed her education by taking the high school graduation exams there.

This video turned lesbianism to be a topic in the mainstream media, both because of the lyrics of the song and the dance performed by Billur Kalkavan and Yeşim Salkım.

[14][15][16] Beginning in the 1990s, she appeared in the movies Mavi Sürgün, Gece Otostopçusu, Ölüm Peşimizde, Kraliçe Fabrika'da, Mezuniyet, Çarşı Pazar, and Canavar Gibi: Türk İşi Frankeştayn.

[18] She also created a YouTube channel named Billur Tv with her partner, Buğra Bahadırlı in 2014, and made videos about astrology, sexuality and other topics.