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

Melih Kibar Melih Kibar (6 September 1951 – 7 April 2005) was a Turkish composer. Biography Born in Istanbul, he graduated from the German High School Istanbul and studied chemical engineering at Boğaziçi University. He received a Master's degree from ...

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

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for the coming

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national finals. (see Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975). Melih Kibar then working with

Timur Selçuk Timur Selçuk (2 July 1946 – 6 November 2020) was a Turkish composer, pianist, singer and conductor. Biography One of the greatest Turkish composers, Timur Selçuk was the son of Turkish neo-classical music composer Münir Nurettin Selçu ...

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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