Türkstar

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
Created byFremantle Media & Kanal D
StarringHaldun Dormen
Gamze Özçelik
Zerrin Özer
Country of originTurkey
No. of seasons1
Release
Original networkShow TV[1]
Original release2004 (2004) –
2004 (2004)
Finalists (with dates of elimination)
Emrah KeskinWinner
Simge Bağdatlı19 June
Sertaç Yanmaz12 June
Ufuk Çakir5 June
Abedin Sakirov29 May
Faruk Emre Kürklüoğlu22 May
Ahmet Gülsen15 May
Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma8 May
Sevil Kul1 May
Seçil Hüner Ünsal24 April
Açelya Kılıç17 April
Yusuf Emre Uzunca10 April
Banu Ekşi3 April

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:

Türkstar Jury

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

Notes
  1. "Kanal D'den SHOW TV'ye transfer olan ve Popstar"
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