Turkey 1998

The Turkish final took place in Ankara on February 28th, and was broadcast on Eutelsat all over Europe.

The winning song was "Unutamazsin" ("You can't forget") sung by Tüzmen. As usual, no votes were announced.

The main presenter was Bulent Ozveren. Below the list of songs, more pictures.

Tüzmen took part in a group in the 1996 Turkish final.

List of songs from Alp Tuncaci:

#	Song	Composers	Artist(s)
1	Kayip asik	Semih Güneri	Tayfun Çikrikçi, Sebnem Özsaran & Özle Senözpesçi
2	Oyna	Asligül Ayas & Sevingül Bahadir	Tugrul Arsever
3	Soramadim	Hakan Süersan	Meltem Büyükugurgör
4	Gökkusagi	Yüksel Dural & Ilter Yesiltay	Pamela Spence
5	Serden geçtigim	Serpil Toparlak & Çetin Akcan	Berk Özberk
6	Dertli saz	Mete A. Çelik & Günay Çoban	Kubat
7	Unutamazsin	Dr. Erdinç Tunç & Canan Tunç	Tüzmen
8	Çal	Levent Çoker & Günay Çoban	Sebnem Paker
9	Yalan askilar	Sansal Ergin & Hale Turan	Elçin Ergin
10	Sevmek zamani	Mine Mucur & Aylin Sarikayali	Sebnem Özsaran

"Unutamazsin" is a sweeping powerful ballad, which for some reason reminded me of Jan Johansen's 1995 song - perhaps it was the singer's stubble!

< Sebnem Paker Interval act, Candan Ercetin >

Sebnem Paker's entry was mostly a Dinle II, even down to the finger cymbals and cries of 'Aaaah'. Having said that, I liked it the best.

The Interval act was Candan Ercetin, a popular Turkish singer, who performed a number of songs, one of which I knew well from Turkish TV. Candan was part of the group "Klips ve Onlar" who performed "Halley" for Turkey at the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest.

Alp Tunaci's Turkish Eurovision web site is at http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/6108

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