Turkey TURKEY 2015 - not taking part

[Mrm]

Well all right [MENTION=12913]Happiness[/MENTION].. It makes me a bit sad, tbh, but hey ho .. I thank to a person who provide us Anatolian elements to ESC in 2005!

Then, and probably NEVER again..

 

[Smudy]

 

[GRE]

I dont have good news.

Turkey: “Will No Longer Participate” In Eurovision | Eurovoix

 

[BGN]

Again unconfirmed news by the broadcaster. Source of the information is website, claiming that Director-General of TRT has said that, but as far as I remember turskish member of our forum said that there is nothing like that.

 

[Quent91]

So sad, no more guaranteed 12 points for Azerbaïdjan

 

[Sean]

Well if they're not coming back then oh well... I don't exactly miss them that much but it'd be nice if they did come back.

 

[JackBauer]

What is really annoying me is the feeling Turkish's government is totally behind this and not the broadcaster or Turkish people.

Broadcaster should get some balls sometimes. It mustn't have been easy for ORF and IBA to choose and support Dana and Conchita, but still they went for it.

Turkish people are much more open minded than they seemed to think imo. Their seems to be a very nasty wawe coming from the East, speaking about morality, full of nationalism. Very disgraceful.

And if that's wasn't enough they tried to imposed a new contest in opposition to the contest.

 

[BGN]

It's all about the politics - both in Russia and Turkey. People in these countries are not narrow-minded themselves, even quite the opposite. That's why you have these results in the televote and the jury results from these countries. People vote without prejudices, while the juries are following the general politics of the country (government). The World wolud've been much better place without our stupid, narrow-minded and pathetic politicians both Western and Eastern ones.

 

[GRE]

Volkan Bozkir, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Turkish Parliament, announced today during a press conference, that Turkey will not return to Eurovision anymore.

 

[BGN]

Who is that person and why he has the right to talk on the behalf of the broadcaster? Eurovision is not something that politicians should take care of.

 

[Quent91]

Volkan Bozkir, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Turkish Parliament, announced today during a press conference, that Turkey will not return to Eurovision anymore.

Well, goodbye pals.

 

[Archer]

It is misinterpreted. Volkan Bozkir, a MP of the AKP tweeted that he was happy that we're not participating anymore after he saw Conchita. Then he removed his tweet because of persistent reactions coming from the people. This is the whole story.

I don't see why you guys are giving so much credit to these twisted and warped news without an official statement by the broadcaster.

 

[joancamo]

I hope those news are fake, because I miss Turkey's entries so much, my favorites were 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010

 

[GermanBango]

As much as I usually like Turkish entries ... I have to admit I'm not really sad about this... tbh.
I have no need for bull-headed and intolerant governments in Eurovision ...we already have enough of them.
So bye bye Turkey.

 

[Happiness]

I am tired of those fake news and explain that they are fake news.
Volkan Bozkır tweeted that they're glad they didn't participate. But that tweet got high reactions in a bad way and he deleted that tweet. Once again, there is nothing about "never participating" thing. You guys look more like... Want to hear such news, instead of believing.

 

[Mrm]

I'm sure they wouldn't come back if CW didn't win as well..

 

[Sean]

How much say does the government have in TRT?

 

[Happiness]

How much say does the government have in TRT?

Pretty effective.
We have seen how government is effective with even private channels after the Gezi Park events last year, that they didn't say anything about those protests in whole first week. That's the reason TRT stays away from the contest with silly reasons. That's neither the decision of public, nor the channel.

 

[Mrm]

I'd like smth ethnic from the Van province!!

Or from Gaziantep!

Or based on Horon folk dance from Trabzon area!

 

[BGN]

It is misinterpreted. Volkan Bozkir, a MP of the AKP tweeted that he was happy that we're not participating anymore after he saw Conchita. Then he removed his tweet because of persistent reactions coming from the people. This is the whole story.

I don't see why you guys are giving so much credit to these twisted and warped news without an official statement by the broadcaster.

This! The only trustworthy source is TRT, not politicians, not social networks and so on.