In television show she told that her father's Kurdish name is Ello, and her Kurdish birth name is Malakan. In 2015 Hulya Avsar told Turkish media in her own TV host that her father was Kurdish and that her name is Malakan in Kurdish. In 1979 Avsar married Mehmet Tecirli, an engineering student; however, they divorced shortly after. Avsar married for a second time in 1997 to Kaya Çilingiroglu which ended in divorce in 2005; they have one daughter named Zehra. She has also dated former 1987-88 European Golden Shoe football player Tanju Çolak and businessman Sadettin Saran between 2007-10.
