Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Eurovision Song Contest 2010
Country  Turkey
National selection
Selection process Internal selection
Selection date(s) Artist: 12 January 2010
Song: 3 March 2010
Selected entrant maNga
Selected song "We Could Be The Same"
Finals performance
Semi-final result Qualified (1st, 118 points)
Final result 2nd, 170 points
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2009 • 2010 • 2011►

Turkey has confirmed their participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, to be held in Oslo, Norway. Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) will be responsible for the country's entry at the Contest. TRT announced that it will choose 8 artists internally and decide the participant in January 2010.[1]

Speculation

After Hadise's 4th place in Moscow at the 2009 Contest major speculation of who would represent Turkey in the 2010 Contest arose. The first names announced by Turkish media were in July 2009, when it was speculated that TRT had approached Tarkan to represent Turkey at the contest in Oslo, Norway. Murat Boz was also speculated at being a possible Turkish entry in May 2010.[2] This was followed by confirmation in the Turkish newspaper Sabah that Tarkan would represent the country in May, with agreements confirmed between him and TRT.[3][4][5] However this was later denied by both Tarkan's management and TRT.[6][7][8][9]

Further names speculated by the media included Nazan Öncel, who may write an entry for the contest and has been contacted by TRT for such. Öncel denied any contact with the broadcaster however she did mention an interest in writing a Turkish Eurovision entry.[10][11] Other names who indicated an interest in representing Turkey included Ziynet Sali.[12] Ajda Pekkan, who represented Turkey at the 1980, had been approached by TRT to enter in 2010, however she refused the offer.[13]

Five names have been tipped by the media as being candidates: Şebnem Ferah, Deniz Arcak, Sibel Tüzün (who represented Turkey in 2006), Hadise (who represented Turkey in 2009) and maNga, winners of the "Best Turkish Act" and "Best European Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009.[14] maNga was speculated as being the strongest candidate for Eurovision after the MTV Europe Music Awards,[15] however the group later denied that they had been given an invitation by TRT, but said that should they receive the invitation they would accept it.[16][17] However on 19 November the Milliyet newspaper claimed that maNga is the favourites to be the Turkish Eurovision entry in Oslo.[18]

In December 2009 TRT announced that they would hold an email poll, in which the public could suggest names to TRT for Eurovision 2010 who TRT would further discuss with over representing the country in Oslo.[19] The poll, open until 11 December, gave three artists which TRT would choose from: Şebnem Ferah; maNga; and Emre Aydin, after rumours suggested that Murat Boz had been selected.[20] On 2 January it was revealed that Ferah had rejected a Eurovision proposal, saying that it was no longer a musical contest.[21]

On 7 January it was announced that TRT had reached a preliminary agreement with maNga to enter Eurovision, with Aydin also declining Eurovision participation in 2010.[22][23] On 12 January TRT confirmed that maNga would enter Eurovision for Turkey in May.[24][25]

Selection process

Throughout January it was reported that maNga had entered an intense period in preparation for Eurovision, perfecting songs for submission to TRT.[26][27] In February 2010 maNga submitted three songs to TRT, who will choose the competing Eurovision song. All songs are in English.[28][29] The official representative, We Could Be the Same was selected from the three submitted entries and presented by TRT on 3 March.[30][31]

At Eurovision

Turkey competed in the second semi-final of the contest on 27 May, performing in the 17th slot, and qualified for the final.

In the Final on 29 May, MaNga came 2nd with 170 points. They performed in the 14th slot.

As the eventual winning country of the contest, Germany, automatically qualifies for the final of the 2011 contest due to their "Big Four" status, it was speculated that Turkey would automatically qualify for the final, but on 28 August 2010 at a Reference Group meeting in Belgrade it was decided that no such change would be made, and the number of Final participants would simply be lowered to 24 countries. The question was eventually resolved when the fifth slot was filled by Italy, returning from a 14-year hiatus, as a Big Five country.

Points Awarded by Turkey[32]

Semi final

12 points Azerbaijan
10 points Georgia
8 points Romania
7 points Bulgaria
6 points Denmark
5 points Netherlands
4 points Armenia
3 points Ukraine
2 points Sweden
1 point Ireland

Final

12 points Azerbaijan
10 points Germany
8 points Bosnia and Herzegovina
7 points Albania
6 points Armenia
5 points Georgia
4 points Russia
3 points Greece
2 points Romania
1 point Ukraine

Points Awarded to Turkey (Semi-Final 2)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points Awarded to Turkey (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References

  1. ↑ TRT Karar Veriyor (Turkish)
  2. ↑ Anadioti, Eva (2009-11-21). "Murat or Tarkan for Oslo?". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  3. ↑ Avci, Özlem (2009-08-19). "Ve Tarkan Eurovision'da" (in Turkish). Sabah. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  4. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2009-08-19). "Tarkan to represent Turkey at Eurovision 2010". ESCToday. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  5. ↑ "Tarkan heading off to Oslo". Oikotimes. 2009-08-19. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  6. ↑ Viniker, Barry (2009-08-20). "Tarkan for Turkey denied by manager". ESCToday. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  7. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2009-08-20). "TRT: Tarkan not to represent Turkey in Oslo". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  8. ↑ Costa, Nelson (2009-08-21). "Tarkan's manager denies Eurovision participation". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  9. ↑ "TRT also denies Tarkan's participation". Oikotimes. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  10. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2009-09-07). "Nazan Öncel to write Turkish entry?". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  11. ↑ Coroneri, Alenka (2009-09-06). "Nazan Öncel wants to bid for Eurovision 2010". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  12. ↑ "Ziynet Sali interested for Eurovision 2010". Oikotimes. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  13. ↑ "Ajda Pekkan (1980) refused TRT proposal for Eurovision 2010". Oikotimes. 2009-09-22. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  14. ↑ Coroneri, Alenka (2009-09-29). "Local press claims 3 names, TRT still denies". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  15. ↑ Al Kaziri, Ghassan (2009-11-08). "Manga, a strong candidate for Oslo?". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  16. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2009-11-08). "Manga would represent Turkey". ESCToday. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  17. ↑ Coroneri, Alenka (2009-11-19). "There is no Eurovision proposal, says Manga band". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  18. ↑ "Eurovision’un favorisi maNga" (in Turkish). Milliyet. 2009-11-19. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  19. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2009-12-07). "Turkey: TRT launch email poll to choose Eurovision representative". ESCToday. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
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  21. ↑ Hondal, Victor (2010-01-02). "Sebnem Ferah rejects Eurovision proposal". Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  22. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2010-01-07). "Turkish megaband maNga to Eurovision?". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  23. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-01-07). "TRT and Manga reach preliminary agreement". ESCToday. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  24. ↑ Victor, Hondal (2010-01-12). "maNga to represent Turkey in Oslo". ESCToday. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  25. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2010-01-12). "It's official: maNga for Turkey!". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  26. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-01-17). "MaNga will choose the possible songs next week". ESCToday. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  27. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2010-01-18). "maNga: We'll do our best for Turkey!". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  28. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-01-13). "MaNga's song will be in English". ESCToday. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  29. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-02-11). "TRT will select Turkish song tomorrow". ESCToday. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  30. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-02-23). "Turkish song launched on March 3rd". ESCToday. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  31. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (2010-02-23). "maNga introduces Turkish song on 3rd of March". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  32. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest 2008