Miss Turkey

Miss Turkey is a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Turkey, who personify beauty with intelligence. The first beauty contest was held on September 2, 1929 with the backing of the government, and the title holder was Feriha Tevfik.

Miss Turkey pageant was initially promoted by the newspaper Cumhuriyet. Since 1980, it is being run by the "Miss Turkey Organisation". Between the years 1980-1990, the contest was sponsored by the newspapers Güneş, Sabah, Tercüman, Bulvar and some others. With the establishment of private TV channels in Turkey in 1990, the channels Magic Box, Show TV, Kanal D and Star TV took over the promotion of the pageant. The title "Miss Turkey" is a registered trade mark.

The winner of the contest participates in the Miss World finals, while the three runner-ups are delegated to other international contests of Miss Universe, Miss Europe and Miss International each to represent Turkey.

Winners

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Delegates to major international contests

Year	Miss World	Miss Universe	Miss Europe	Miss International
1980	Fahriye Funda Ayloğlu	Heyecan Gökoğlu	Serap Yalçın	Nükhet Buar
1981	Aydan Şener	Şenay Ünlü	Ayşegül Ercan	Sebun İnja
1982	Ayşe Belgin Güven	Canan Emine Kakmacı	Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu (1st)	Mine Ersoy
1983	Ebru Özmeriç	Dilaa Haraçcı	(not held)	Güzin Yıldız
1984	(DNC)	Gülçin Ülker	Neşe Erberk (1st)	Gamze Çuhadaroğlu
1985	(DNC) Filiz Hülya Küçükbayraktar	(DNC)	Müge Görduva	(DNC)
1986	Meltem Doğanay	Demet Başdemir	(not held)	(DNC)
1987	Şebnem Dinçgör	Leyla Şeşbeş	(not held)	Mine Baysan
1988	Esra Sümer	Meltem Hakarar	Şebnem Tan (3rd)	Didem Fatma Aksel
1989	Burcu Burkut	Jasmin Baradan	(not held)	Esra Akar
1990	Jülide Ateş (SF)	Jülide Ateş (SF)	(not held)	Aylin Fatma Aydın
1991	Dilek Aslıhan Koruyan (SF)	Pınar Özdemir	Defne Samyeli (4th)	Defne Samyeli
1992	Özlem Kaymaz	Elif Ilgaz	Banu Sağnak (3rd)	Banu Nur Dipçin
1993	Emel Yıldırım	İpek Gümüşoğlu	Arzum Onan (1st)	Hande Kazanova (SF)
1994	Pınar Altuğ	Banu Usluer	Didem Uzel (2nd)	Ayşın Albayrak
1995	Demet Şener	Gamze Saygı	Beste Acar (SF)	Ahu Paşakay (SF)
1996	Serpil Sevilay Öztürk	Serpil Sevilay Öztürk	Pınar Yiğit (SF)	Gökçe Yanardağ (SF)
1997	Çağla Şikel (4th)	Yeşim Çetin	Nilay Ceylan	Kamile Burcu Esmersoy (SF)
1998	Buke Saygı	Asuman Krause	(not held)	Şenay Akay (SF)
1999	Ayşe Hatun Önal	Öznur Erkan	Hülya Mutlu (SF)	Merve Alman
2000	Yüksel Ak (3rd)	(DNC) Cansu Dere	(not held)	Hülya Karanlık (SF)
2001	Tuğçe Kazaz	Sedef Avcı	Hatice Şendil (4th)	Ece İncedursun
2002	Azra Akın (1st)	Çağla Kubat	Esra Erön (3rd)	Nihan Akkuş (SF)
2003	Tuğba Karaca	Özge Ulusoy	Yelda Kaya	Gizem Kalyoncu
2004	Güzel Nur Gümüşdoğrayan	Fatoş Seğmen	Birce Akalay	Gülşah Şahin
2005	Hande Subaşı	Dilek Aksoy	Merve Özkaran	Şebnem Azade
2005	Merve Büyüksaraç	Ceyla Kirazlı	Selda Öğrük	Asena Tuğal

• (DNC) : Did not compete
• (SF) : Semi-finalist

Winners at major international contests

Miss World

• 1932 Keriman Halis Ece
• 2002 Azra Akın

Miss Europe

• 1952 Günseli Başar
• 1971 Filiz Vural
• 1982 Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu
• 1984 Neşe Erberk
• 1993 Arzum Onan

Reference

• Miss Turkey official website

See also

• Mister Turkey