Turkey was represented by
Çetin Alp
Çetin Küçükarslan, better known by his stage name Çetin Alp (21 June 1947 – 18 May 2004), was a Turkish singer.
Life
He was born in Malatya. Alp married three times, the first of which was to Ergül Kuğuoğlu. From this marriage he ha ...
and the Short Waves at the
1983 Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 1983 was the 28th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Munich, then West Germany, following the country's victory at the with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden" by Nicole. Despite their first vic ...
, which took place in
Munich on 23 April 1983. Çetin Alp won the rights to represent Turkey on 4 March 1983.
Before Eurovision
7. Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması Türkiye Finali
The final took place on 4 March 1983 at the TRT Studios in
Ankara, hosted by BaÅŸak DoÄŸru. Eight songs competed and the winner was determined by an expert jury.
At Eurovision
On the night of the contest Alp performed 6th following
Italy and preceding
Spain. At the close of voting Opera had received ''
nul points'' placing Turkey joint 19 place (along with Spain).
The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to
Yugoslavia.
Voting
Turkey did not receive any points at the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest.
References
External links
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Turkish national Final 1983
{{Eurovision Song Contest 1983
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...