Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Turkey

Member station	TRT
Appearances	28
First appearance	1975
Best result	1st, 2003
Worst result	last, 1975, 1983, 1987
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Turkey participted in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1975, but did not achieve any considerable success until late 1990s. They withdrew from the 1979 contest in Jerusalem, a major disappointment for the selected performers Maria Rita Epik & 21 Peron, who would have performed the song Seviyorum. Since the introduction of the free language rule as well as televoting (in 1999 and 1997, respectively) the Turkish entries enjoyed much more success. Turkey has gotten reguralry high points from Germany, Netherlands and France - countries with a significant Turkish population.^[1]

In 1997, Turkey finished at the 3^rd place with the song Dinle by Şebnem Paker. During the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, Turkey won for the first time with Every Way That I Can, by Sertab Erener, narrowly beating Belgium by just two points. Next year, the home entry in Istanbul, For Real by Athena, placed 4^th.

Contents 1 Entries 2 See also 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Entries

Year	Entry	Writer(s)	Place	Points
1956 - 1974	Did not take part
1975	Seninle Bir Dakika Semiha Yankı	Hikmet Münir Ebcioğlu, Kemal Ebcioğlu	19 / 19	3
1976 - 1977	Did not take part
1978	Sevince Nilüfer and Nazar	Hülki Aktunç, Dağhan Baydur, Onno Tunç	18 / 20	2
1979	Withdrew
1980	Petrol Ajda Pekkan	Atilla Özdemiroğlu, Şanar Yurdatapan	15 / 19	23
1981	Dönme Dolap Ayşegül Aldinç and Modern Folk Trio	Ali Kocatepe	18 / 20	9
1982	Hani? Neco	Faik Tuğsuz, Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz	15 / 18	20
1983	Opera Çetin Alp and The Short Wave	Aysel Gürel, Buğra Uğur	19 / 20	0
1984	Halay Beş Yıl Önce - On Yıl Sonra	Ülkü Aker, Selçuk Başar	12 / 19	37
1985	Didai Didai Dai MFÖ	Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner, Özkan Uğur	14 / 19	36
1986	Halley Klips ve Onlar	İlhan İrem, Melih Kibar	9 / 20	53
1987	Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne Seyyal Taner and Lokomotif	Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz	22 / 22	0
1988	Sufi MFÖ	Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner, Özkan Uğur	15 / 20	37
1989	Bana Bana Pan	Timur Selçuk	21 / 22	5
1990	Gözlerinin Hapsindeyim Kayahan Açar	Kayahan Açar	17 / 22	21
1991	İki dakika İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca and Can Uğurluer	Aysel Gürel, Şevket Uğurluer	12 / 22	44
1992	Yaz Bitti Aylin Vatankoş	Aldogan Şimşekay, Aylin Uçanlar	19 / 23	17
1993	Esmer Yarim Burak Aydos	Burak Aydos	21 / 25	10
1994	Relegated
1995	Sev! Arzu Ece	Melih Kibar, Zeynep Talu	16 / 23	21
1996	Beşinci Mevsim Şebnem Paker	Levent Çoker, Selma Çuhacı	12 / 23	57
1997	Dinle Şebnem Paker	Mehtap Alnıtemiz	3 / 25	121
1998	Unutamazsın Tüzmen	Canan Tunç, Erdinç Tunç	14 / 25	25
1999	Dön Artık Tuğba Önal	Canan Tunç, Erdinç Tunç	16 / 23	21
2000	Yorgunum Anla Pınar Ayhan	Pınar Ayhan, Sühan Ayhan, Orkun Yazgan	10 / 24	59
2001	Sevgiliye Son Sedat Yüce	Figen Çakmak, Nurdan Güneri, Semih Güneri	11 / 23	41
2002	Leylaklar Soldu Kalbinde Safir	Figen Çakmak, Fani Hodara, Sami Hodara	16 / 24	29
2003	Everyway That I Can Sertab Erener	Demir Demirkan, Sertab Erener	1 / 26	167
2004	For Real Athena	Gökhan Özoğuz, Hakan Özoğuz	4 / 24	195
2005	Rimi Rimi Ley Gülseren	Göksan Arman, Erdinç Tunç	13 / 24	92
2006	Superstar Sibel Tüzün	Sibel Tüzün	11 / 24	91

[edit] See also

• Turkish pop music
• Music of Turkey

[edit] External links

• Turkey on the official Eurovision Song Contest website
• Lyrics of all Turkish Eurovision entries
• Turkish diaspora voting

[edit] References