Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Internal selection

Following Hadise's fourth place in 2009 with the song "Düm Tek Tek", several artists were rumoured in Turkish media as potential Turkish representatives for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, including singers Murat Boz, Tarkan and Ziynet Sali.^[2][3][4] Tarkan was tipped as the favourite to represent Turkey with agreements being confirmed, however this was later denied by both TRT and the artist's management.^[5][6][7][8] Nazan Öncel was rumoured to be writing the Turkish Eurovision 2010 entry, however Öncel denied any contact with the broadcaster but mentioned an interest in writing a Eurovision entry for Turkey.^[9][10] On 22 September 2009, it was revealed that 1980 Turkish Eurovision entrant Ajda Pekkan had been approached by TRT but declined the offer as she did not want to interfere with younger artists.^[11] Five artists were later reported by the media as candidates: Deniz Arcak, Hadise, Manga, Şebnem Ferah and 2006 Turkish Eurovision entrant Sibel Tüzün, with Manga being the favourite after winning the "Best Turkish Act" and "Best European Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009.^[12][13][14] The band later stated that they were yet to be approached by TRT but would accept the offer should they receive one.^[15][16]

On 7 December 2009, TRT opened the suggestions for the public to nominate potential artists for consideration until 11 December 2009.^[17] Three artists were shortlisted following public input: Emre Aydın, Manga and Şebnem Ferah and were therefore approached by TRT.^[18] On 2 January 2010, Ferah declined the offer stating that Eurovision was no longer a musical contest.^[19] On 7 January 2010, TRT announced that they had reached a preliminary agreement with Manga to represent Turkey in Oslo following the refusal of Aydın.^[20][21] Manga was confirmed as the Turkish representative on 12 January.^[22][23] Three songs, all written in English, were submitted by the band to the broadcaster in February 2010 and a ten-member selection committee selected "We Could Be the Same" as the song they would perform at the contest.^{[24][25][26][27]}

On 3 March 2010, "We Could Be the Same" was presented to the public during a press conference that took place at the TRT Tepebaşı Studios in Istanbul, broadcast on TRT 1 as well as online via the broadcaster's official website trt.net.tr. In addition to the presentation of the song, the band performed a mini concert during the press conference.^[28][29] The song was written by Evren Ozdemir, Fiona Movery Akıncı, as well as Manga themselves.

Turkey competed in the second semi-final of the contest on 27 May, performing in the 17th slot, and qualified for the final. Turkey came 1st with 118 points: the public awarded Turkey 2nd place with 119 points and the jury awarded also 2nd place with 93 points.^[30][31] In the Final on 29 May, Manga came 2nd with 170 points. They performed in the 14th slot.^[32] The public awarded Turkey 2nd place with 177 points and the jury awarded 8th place with 119 points.^[31]

Voting

Points awarded to Turkey

Points awarded to Turkey (Final)^[34]

Score	Country
12 points	Azerbaijan  Croatia  France
10 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Germany  Macedonia  United Kingdom
8 points	Albania  Netherlands  Romania  Ukraine
7 points
6 points	Belgium  Denmark  Estonia
5 points	Georgia  Sweden
4 points	Lithuania
3 points	Belarus  Finland  Serbia  Spain   Switzerland
2 points	Norway  Slovenia
1 point	Ireland

Points awarded by Turkey

Points awarded by Turkey (Final)^[34]

Score	Country
12 points	Azerbaijan
10 points	Germany
8 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
7 points	Albania
6 points	Armenia
5 points	Georgia
4 points	Russia
3 points	Greece
2 points	Romania
1 point	Ukraine

Detailed voting results

Televoting results from Turkey (Semi-Final 2)^[35]

Draw	Country	Votes	Rank	Points
01	Lithuania	376	12
02	Armenia	3,071	3	8
03	Israel	403	9	2
04	Denmark	434	8	3
05	Switzerland	148	16
06	Sweden	483	7	4
07	Azerbaijan	13,352	1	12
08	Ukraine	829	5	6
09	Netherlands	389	10	1
10	Romania	1,040	4	7
11	Slovenia	167	15
12	Ireland	293	13
13	Bulgaria	560	6	5
14	Cyprus	384	11
15	Croatia	272	14
16	Georgia	3,422	2	10
17	Turkey

Detailed voting results from Turkey (Final)^[35][36]

Draw	Country	Results					Points
		Jury	Televoting			Combined
			Votes	Rank	Points
01	Azerbaijan	12	58,474	1	12	24	12
02	Spain		2,122	14
03	Norway	1	594	22		1
04	Moldova	5	2,455	11		5
05	Cyprus		900	20
06	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	4,627	6	5	13	8
07	Belgium		1,794	15
08	Serbia		1,219	18
09	Belarus		756	21
10	Ireland		2,455	11
11	Greece		4,716	5	6	6	3
12	United Kingdom		521	23
13	Georgia	2	6,393	4	7	9	5
14	Turkey
15	Albania	10	2,779	10	1	11	7
16	Iceland		1,377	17
17	Ukraine	4	1,377	9	2	6	1
18	France		4,225	7	4	4
19	Romania	3	3,882	8	3	6	2
20	Russia	7	2,218	13		7	4
21	Armenia		11,154	2	10	10	6
22	Germany	6	10,787	3	8	14	10
23	Portugal		266	24
24	Israel		1,111	19
25	Denmark		1,731	16