''Çoban Yıldızı'' is an instrumental Turkish melody composed by

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in 1975. In 1975, TRT, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation ordered a

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for the coming Eurovision Song contest national finals. (see

Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1975. The country was represented by Semiha Yankı with the song "Seninle Bir Dakika" written by Hikmet Münir Ebcioğlu and composed by Kemal Ebcioğlu. It came last in the Eu ...

). Melih Kibar then working with

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composed the melody and named it Çoban Yıldızı. (In Turkish, ''Çoban Yıldızı'' means "shepherd's star" and it actually refers to the planet

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). He submitted his composition to Timur Selçuk who arranged the melody and played it during the national contest. In an interview Melih Kibar said that during the first performance of the melody he was studying for his university finals. The melody quickly gained popularity; the Selçuk performance was popularly taken as that of a contestant on the show. The song being an instrumental prohibited it from contestant performance. In the following years TRT used this jingle for the Eurovision national contests. The melody was included in Melih's album ''Yadigar'' in 2001.Review essay
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