Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983

Turkey was represented by Çetin Alp & the Short Waves at the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Munich on 23 April 1983. Çetin Alp won the rights to represent Turkey on 4 March 1983.

National Final

The final was hosted by Başak Doğru at the studio of TRT in Istanbul. Eight songs were submitted and the winning song was chosen by the expert jury.

**4 March 1983**
Draw	Artist	Song	Place
1	Vedat Sakman	Müzisyen
2	Hakan Sıvacı	Boğaziçi
3	Ayşegül Aldinç	Heyecan	3
4	Mehmet Senpeç	Yaşayamam
5	Coşkun Demir	Dön bana
6	Çetin Alp & the Short Waves	Opera	1
7	Mavi Yolcular	Heyamola
8	Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra	Atlantis	2

At Eurovision

On the night of the contest Alp performed 6th following Italy and preceding Spain. At the close of voting Opera had received the dreaded nul points placing Turkey joint 19 place (along with Spain). The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to Yugoslavia.

External links

(French) Turkish national Final 1983

Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1975 ~~1976 to 1977~~ 1978 ~~1979~~ 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 ~~1994~~ 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ~~2013 to 2016~~

Artists

1970s	~~1970 to 1974~~ Semiha Yankı ~~1976 to 1977~~ Nilüfer and Nazar ~~1979~~

1980s	Ajda Pekkan Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül Neco Çetin Alp and The Short Waves Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra MFÖ Klips ve Onlar Seyyal Taner and Lokomotif MFÖ Pan

1990s	Kayahan İzel, Reyhan and Can Aylin Vatankoş Burak Aydos ~~1994~~ Arzu Ece Şebnem Paker Şebnem Paker and Etnik Tüzmen Tuba Önal

2000s	Pınar Ayhan and The SOS Sedat Yüce Buket Bengisu and Safir Sertab Erener Athena Gülseren Sibel Tüzün Kenan Doğulu Mor ve Ötesi Hadise

2010s	maNga Yüksek Sadakat Can Bonomo ~~2013 to 2014~~

Songs

1970s	~~1970 to 1974~~ "Seninle Bir Dakika" ~~1976 to 1977~~ "Sevince" ~~1979~~

1980s	"Petrol" "Dönme Dolap" "Hani?" "Opera" "Halay" "Diday diday day" "Halley" "Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne" "Sufi" "Bana Bana"

1990s	"Gözlerinin Hapsindeyim" "İki Dakika" "Yaz Bitti" "Esmer Yarim" ~~1994~~ "Sev" "Beşinci Mevsim" "Dinle" "Unutamazsın" "Dön Artık"

2000s	"Yorgunum Anla" "Sevgiliye Son" "Leylaklar Soldu Kalbinde" "Everyway That I Can" "For Real" "Rimi Rimi Ley" "Süperstar" "Shake It Up Şekerim" "Deli" "Düm Tek Tek"

2010s	"We Could Be the Same" "Live It Up" "Love Me Back" ~~2013 to 2014~~

(Note: Entries scored out are when Turkey did not compete)

Eurovision Song Contest 1983

Countries

Final (by final results)	Luxembourg (winner) Israel Sweden Yugoslavia Germany United Kingdom Netherlands France Norway Austria Italy Finland Portugal Greece Switzerland Cyprus Denmark Belgium Turkey Spain

Artists

Final (by final results)	Corinne Hermès Ofra Haza Carola Häggkvist Danijel Hoffmann & Hoffmann Sweet Dreams Bernadette Guy Bonnet Jahn Teigen Westend Riccardo Fogli Ami Aspelund Armando Gama Christie Stasinopoulou Mariella Farré Stavros & Constantina Gry Johansen Pas de Deux Çetin Alp & the Short Waves Remedios Amaya

Songs

Final (by final results)	"Si la vie est cadeau" "Hi" "Främling" "Džuli" "Rücksicht" "I'm Never Giving Up" "Sing Me a Song" "Vivre" "Do Re Mi" "Hurricane" "Per Lucia" "Fantasiaa" "Esta balada que te dou" "Mou Les" "Io così non ci sto" "I Agapi Akoma Zi" "Kloden drejer" "Rendez-vous" "Opera" "¿Quién maneja mi barca?"

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