Endless are the ways to select the Eurovision entry. November 2, 2012 a special advisory board will meet with the TRT committee to discuss the next Turkish entry. All this after TRT's general director İbrahim Şahin earlier this year said Turkey is done with Eurovision and will be in Baku 2012 only because it's Baku. He also criticized the televoting system maybe forgetting Turkey is one country that has benefited from it the most perhaps! All this is now past them and Turkey will indeed be in Malmö 2013.
The advisory board includes several previous Turkish represents along with other musicians, TV and radio personalities. I wonder what the outcome will be? I hope Turkey would bring back the real flavor of their music and hopefully also the language! Will they all agree it's time for Tarkan finally? :-)
Can Bonomo (2012), Ferhan Akgül (maNga 2010), Harun Tekin (Mor Ve Ötesi 2008), Sertab Erener (2003), Kayahan Acar and Demet Sağıroğlu (1990), Fuat Güner (MFÖ, 1985, 1988), Seyyal Taner (1987) and Semiha Yanki (1975) are the Eurovision veterans called in. (Where is Ajda Pekkan?)
The meeting will be apparently also broadcasted live on TRT's website, but then who of us understands Turkish to follow it?
Somehow this all makes me think of Norway in 1982 when they apparently put all the Eurovision winning data into a computer and the result was the best would be to send a male-female duo with a ballad et voilà, Adieu was there. However it only managed 12th place even if it's a very nice little song indeed. Or maybe that's just another urban myth?
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