Türkstar

Türkstar
Created by	Fremantle Media & Kanal D
Starring	Haldun Dormen Gamze Özçelik Zerrin Özer
Country of origin	Turkey
No. of seasons	1
Original release
Network	Show TV
Release	2004 – 2004

Finalists (with dates of elimination)
Emrah Keskin	Winner
Simge Bağdatlı	19 June
Sertaç Yanmaz	12 June
Ufuk Çakir	5 June
Abedin Sakirov	29 May
Faruk Emre Kürklüoğlu	22 May
Ahmet Gülsen	15 May
Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma	8 May
Sevil Kul	1 May
Seçil Hüner Ünsal	24 April
Açelya Kılıç	17 April
Yusuf Emre Uzunca	10 April
Banu Ekşi	3 April

Türkstar was a 2004 Turkish reality television singing competition show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. It was hosted by Seray Sever, Gamze Özçelik and Haldun Dormen. It had extremely low ratings and only lasted one season.

Türkstar is notable for being the only Idol franchise to have featured a singing duo (Meltem Denizci and Emrah Gökelma).

Auditions

The first series of Türkstar had 9 audition cities to find the best talent in all of Turkey, including:

• Adana
• Ankara
• Antalya
• Diyarbakır
• Edirne
• İstanbul
• İzmir
• Trabzon
• Munich, Germany

Türkstar Jury

• Zerrin Özer - Turkish singer.
• Armağan Çağlayan - A&R BMG France.
• Ercan Saatçi - Songwriter & musician.
• Ahmet San - Musician & choreographer.

Contestants

Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma until now remain as the only duo to participate on an Idol show worldwide (auditioned, performed and got voted off together).

Two members of the top 3, Simge Bağdatlı and Sertaç Yanmaz, were born and raised in Germany. The latter was a semifinalist on the first season of Türkstars German equivalent Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

Semi Final Qualifyings

Top 30
Format: 4 out of 10 making it in each week + one Wildcard

Date	First	Second	Third	Fourth
March 11	Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma	Simge Bağdatlı	Emrah Keskin	Faruk Emre Kürklüoğlu
March 18	Ahmet Gülsen	Açelya Kılıç	Yusuf Emre Uzunca	Banu Ekşi
March 25	Sertaç Yanmaz	Abedin Sakirov	Ufuk Çakir	Sevil Kul
Wildcard	Seçil Hüner Ünsal