The Golden Microphone ( tr, Altın Mikrofon) was a music contest annually held between 1965 and 1968 in

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. It was organized by the newspaper ''

Hürriyet ''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948. , it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...

''. In 1960s, most of the Turkish popular music melodies were either songs from west Europe with Turkish lyrics or traditional Turkish folk melodies played with western instruments. The goal of the contest was to encourage the development of popular Turkish music either by new compositions or by using domestic sources. More formally, Hürriyet announced the goal of the contest as "Redirecting Turkish music using technique and style of the western music as well as the instruments of the western music"

Winners

Later years

Altın Mikrofon was a milestone in Turkish music. Although Hürriyet gave up organizing the contest after 1968, two other newspapers tried to continue: '' Günaydın'' in 1972 and Saklambaç in 1979. But these later contests unlike the earlier contests, didn't attracted much attention and they too gave up. The results of these were as follows:

References

External links

1967 winner

1968 winner
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