The Turkvision Song Contest (TSC, ), also known as the Türkvizyon Song Contest, has been a recurring song contest created by Turkish music channel TMB TV, inspired by the format of the
Eurovision Song Contest
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. The
first edition
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took place in
Eskişehir
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,
Turkey
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in December 2013.
Countries and regions which were
Turkic-speaking and of
Turkic ethnicity were eligible to participate in the song contest. The contest was last held on 20 December 2020 as an online event hosted from
Istanbul
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, Turkey. Several cancellations followed, and the future of the Turkvision Song Contest now remains uncertain.
History
According to an October 2013 statement on the official website Turkvision.info: "Turkvision is a new contest inspired of
Eurovision song contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...
. While Eurovision focuses in European countries, Turkvision is a contest whose participants are mainly from Turkish countries or Turkish spoken countries."
Turkvision was actually a song contest which was created by
TÜRKSOY in cooperation with the Turkish music channel TMB TV. The participating countries and regions had to take part in the Semi Final. A juror from each nation awarded between 1 and 10 points for every entry, except their own. An amount of 12 to 15 nations qualified for the Grand Final where the jury determined the winner. TÜRKSOY stated that televoting would be introduced in the future, but this never took place.
Hosting of the Turkvision Song Contest took place in the country or region that also hosted the
Turkic Capital of Culture instead of the previous year's winning country.
In November 2020, the official Turkvision website posted that they hoped to stage the 2021 edition in
Shusha
Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet ...
, Azerbaijan. This was confirmed in December 2020 by İslam Bağırov, the contest's general coordinator, though it was later revealed that the 2021 edition would be taking place in Turkistan, Kazakhstan. However, the 2021 contest did not materialize.
On 1 February 2022, the Uzbekistan Tourism Ambassador announced on
Twitter
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that the 2022 contest would take place in the first week of June 2022 in
Fergana
Fergana ( uz-Latn-Cyrl, Fargʻona, Фарғона, ), () or Ferghana, also Farghana is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Fergana is about 320 km east of Tashkent, about 75 km southwest of A ...
,
Uzbekistan
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, national_anthem = "State Anthem of Uzbekistan, State Anthem of the Republ ...
. However, this did not materialize and TÜRKSOY stated that the contest will be moved to
Bursa
Bursa () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of ...
,
Turkey
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and take place later in the year, but that didn't materialize either.
On 19 April 2024,
Gunesh Abasova, Chairperson of the Turkvision 2020 jury and heavily involved in the contest since her participation in 2013, stated on social media that the contest is set to return in 2024. As part of a song release, she said that its music video would be premiered "at the large-scale competition Turkvision 2024".
Participation
Participants from
Turkic-speaking and
Turkic countries or regions were eligible to compete in the annual Turkvision Song Contests, such as
Crimea
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,
Karachay-Cherkessia
Karachay-Cherkessia (), officially the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus. It is administratively part of the North Caucasian Federal District. As of the 2021 census, Karachay-Cherkessia has a popul ...
, and
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
.
Twenty-four countries and regions took part in the
first edition
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of Turkvision. There were several unsuccessful attempts to participate in the Turkvision Song Contest. Chuvashia, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Xinjiang were one of the original
twenty-four participating areas with initial intentions to competing at the 2013 Contest, but later withdrew for undisclosed reasons.
Russia's
Omsk Oblast
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broadcast the 2014 contest, but they have never made any statement regarding participation. A delegation from another Russian federal subject,
Kalmykia
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, attended the 2015 contest, but did not participate and have not made any subsequent statements regarding participation.
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Other countries
The following countries and regions had confirmed participation at previous editions of the contest, but either withdrew prior to their debut or the contest was cancelled before they could:
* Austria.
* Belgium.
*
Chuvashia
Chuvashia, officially known as Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic languages, Turkic ethnic group. Its capital city, capital i ...
.
* Dagestan.
On 1 July 2016, it was confirmed that
Dagestan
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would make their official Turkvision Song Contest début at the 2016 contest to be held in Turkey, however the contest was eventually canceled.
* Greece.
* Hungary.
* Kumyk. On 23 September 2015 it was confirmed that the
Kumyks
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They traditionally populate the Kumyk Plateau (northern Dagestan and northeastern Chechnya), la ...
would make their official début at the
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
contest to be held in Istanbul, Turkey. However, on 17 December it was announced that Kumyk would not debut at the contest due to the current state of international relations between the Russian Federation and Turkey. Despite this Kumyk did select Gulmira, Fatima and Kamilya with the song "Alğa!" to represent them in 2015. The Kumyks had selected Daniyal Harunow as their artist in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
before the contest's cancellation.
* Latvia.
On 29 October 2016, it was announced that Latvia would be making their Turkvision debut at the 2016 edition, and had internally selected Oksana Bilera with the song "Yakışıyor bize bu sevgi". However, it was later confirmed that both of the 2016 contests had been cancelled due to the
December 2016 Istanbul bombings.
* Netherlands. In October 2016, it was announced that the Netherlands would debut at the 2016 contest in Turkey, when the song "Ana – Vətən", performed by Elcan Rzayev, was announced as the country's entry.
However, the 2016 contest was later cancelled. The Netherlands' participation in the
2020
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contest was provisionally confirmed in November 2020, when "Ana – Vətən", performed by Elcan Rzayev, was again revealed as the Netherlands' entry for the contest.
However, in December 2020, Rzayev withdrew from the contest due to
COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands, leaving the country's participation in the contest in doubt.
* Russia
* Stavropol Krai.
On 23 September 2015 it was confirmed that
Nogais
The Nogais ( ) are a Kipchaks, Kipchak people who speak a Turkic languages, Turkic language and live in Southeastern Europe, North Caucasus, Volga region, Central Asia and Turkey. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well ...
would make their official Turkvision Song Contest début at the 2015 contest to be held in Istanbul, Turkey. But later on 23 November it was announced that they will be represented as Stavropol Krai. However, the contest was eventually canceled.
* Sweden. On 25 October 2016, it was announced that Sweden will debut at the 2016 contest in Turkey. The same day it was announced that Arghavan with the song "Dirçəliş" will fly the Swedish to Turkey. After initially opting to send their 2016 entry to the 2020 contest, the country eventually withdrew citing an inability to record a performance acceptable for the competition.
* Tajikistan.
* Xinjiang.
Xinjiang
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was to make their debut at the inaugural
2013
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2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
festival, in
Eskişehir
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The city is l ...
,
Turkey
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, however it later opted to not partake.
Winners
By year
By country/region
The table below shows the top-three placings from each contest, along with the years that a country won the contest.
By language
Hosting
Bala Turkvision Song Contest
The Bala Turkvision Song Contest was intended to be an annual children's version of the Turkvision Song Contest based on the format of the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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.
Contestants had to be aged between 8 and 15 and had to perform in a
Turkic language
The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia. The Turkic langua ...
. Only one edition of the Bala Turkvision Song Contest took place, on 15 December 2015, and it included 13 countries and regions.
It had been announced on 7 June 2015, that the inaugural Bala Turkvision Song Contest would be held in Mary, Turkmenistan, however, it was later decided that it would take place in Istanbul, Turkey, but it did not materialize and the contest disappeared without a trace. Eligible to participate were Turkic regions, which had either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language. Participating countries and regions included Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Gagauzia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Azerbaijan was the winner of the event with the song "Cocukluk Yillari" performed by Nuray Rahman and Ahmed Amirli.
Notes and references
Footnotes
References
External links
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{{Turkvision Song Contest
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Recurring events established in 2013
2013 establishments in Turkey