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ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Türkiye

The Turkish entry was chosen by TRT. Ukraine first took part in 1975, but dropped out in 2013. Türkiye has won once.

The Eurovision 2006 rumour mill …

Now it's all been a bit slow for the rumour so far, but I've heard a couple of semi-interesting snippets with a Turkish flavour...

22 October – You are the greatest dancer of all times

Let's cast our minds back to former years, to countries taking a long-term absence from our favourite TV show. They could be financially constrained,...

Turkey every song that I can sing

Jesus H Christ this is awful. Its a mix of every style that La Turquie have put in in the last billion years, supposedly...

Turkey 2011 – A Gerry Anderson production

Someone at TRT has been getting the Joe 90 re-runs out again, looking at it and thinking "What can we do with the sixth...

Toto and Gigliola talk Eurovision 2012 – Part 2

At first glance this promises much. There is a song behind this (unusual for Malta) and people that actually look like they're playing instruments...

The best of the rest …

OK, so there are other songs, and they've all been pretty good today, actually. Russia looks like a real contender. He's confident without being too...

Turkey – too slick?

Nick: In spite of the screens flashing up "SHAKE IT!" every so often, it's perfectly clear that Kenan Doglu isn't in any way attempting...

22 October – Baby, I read all answers In your exotic...

Let's cast our minds back to former years, to countries taking a long-term absence from our favourite TV show. They could be financially constrained,...

Turkey – guitars and drums and stuff

Well, this is interesting. It turns out that when you're in a right royal Iceland-induced eurostrop, this looks and sounds absolutely ace. I mean,...

Same Difference

This week we've had wings galore on bees, on seagulls on what I presume were meant to be angels (Bulgaria) so it's only fitting...