Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country	Turkey
National selection
Selection process	27. Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması Türkiye Finali
Selection date(s)	11 February 2005
Selected entrant	Gülseren
Selected song	"Rimi Rimi Ley"
Finals performance
Final result	13th, 92 points
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

Turkey was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by Gülseren with the song "Rimi Rimi Ley", written by Göksan Arman and composed by Erdinç Tunç.

Gülseren was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Her parents moved to France when she was only seven. She had to face a new country, a new language and a new culture but she's been living in Paris ever since. She studied at the INALCO (French university of oriental art, literature and culture) to gain a complete understanding of the country she comes from without forgetting her roots. As she loves sharing, Gülseren teaches Turkish to children in Paris. She started to play the darbuka (Turkish drums) which she stills plays on stage at a very young age. Gülseren has appeared on several albums and in 2001 she released an album of her own.

Before Eurovision

27. Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması Türkiye Finali

After two years of selecting an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest internally, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) decided to return to the public national final system used previously. 136 songs, all written in Turkish, were submitted to TRT and 7 of them were selected by a selection committee for the national final.

The final took place on 11 February 2005 at the Ari TV Studios in Ankara, hosted by Meltem Yazgan and Bülent Özveren. Seven songs competed and the winner was determined by a seventeen-member jury.

Final – 11 February 2005
Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Points	Place
1	Elya & Grup Ariana	"Sen Benim Aşkımsın"	Ümran Akdokur, İrfan Akdokur	0	3
2	Seçil Hüner Yapakçı	"Rumuz Andante"	Selahattin Erhan	4	2
3	Gülseren	"Rimi Rimi Ley"	Göksan Arman, Erdinç Tunç	13	1
4	Nursel Efe	"Tek İsteğim"	Nursel Efe, Serkan Sönmez	0	3
5	Barış Kömürcüoğlu	"Yana Yana"	Göksan Arman, Erdinç Tunç	0	3
6	Murat Türkücüoğlu	"Saydam"	Murat Türkücüoğlu	0	3
7	Sedat Yüce	"Yeniden"	Sedat Yüce	0	3

At Eurovision

Turkey automatically qualified to the grand final, because it was on the top 12 last year. She performed sixth, following Norway and preceding Moldova, and came 13th with 92 points. As Turkey failed to reach the top 11 in the final, the country was forced to compete in the semi-final of the 2006 contest. The spokesperson who revealed Turkey's votes for other countries was TRT and national final host Meltem Ersan Yazgan.[1]

Voting

Points received by Turkey (Final)
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
France Netherlands	Belgium Germany	Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark	Austria	Switzerland
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
	Macedonia	Bulgaria Romania		United Kingdom

Points awarded by Turkey

Semi-final

12 points	Moldova
10 points	Macedonia
8 points	Hungary
7 points	Romania
6 points	Israel
5 points	Bulgaria
4 points	Ireland
3 points	Belarus
2 points	Norway
1 point	Poland

Final

12 points	Greece
10 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
8 points	Malta
7 points	Moldova
6 points	Hungary
5 points	Macedonia
4 points	Romania
3 points	Israel
2 points	Albania
1 point	United Kingdom

References

Philips, Roel (17 May 2005). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

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[1] Philips, Roel (17 May 2005). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Retrieved 28 April 2009.