Background
Her father is from Ağrı and her mother is from Tunceli.
Her father is from Ağrı and her mother is from Tunceli.
While performing at a nightclub in 1991 she met Sezen Aksu. Foreign some time thereafter she worked as a backing singer and collaborated with several other artists on their music projects. Tilbe released her debut album Delikanlım in 1994.
She writes and composes most of her songs and also produces for other artists, including Tarkan, Funda Arar, Demet Akalin and Gulben Ergen.
After the 2006 Israeli airstrike on Lebanon, during a television appearance Tilbe said "May God bring down one disaster after another upon Israel," to which the studio audience answered “Amen.”
Later she tweeted that did not mean to praise Hitler and that she also has some Jewish friends and acquaintances.
Quotations: "May God bring down one disaster after another upon Israel,".
Her tweets received support from Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Ankara, who is a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party and himself a controversial figure.