Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

TRT announced Sertab Erener as the Turkish entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. Her song "Everyway That I Can" was released on 8 March 2003.[1]

In 2005, "Everyway That I Can" was one of fourteen songs chosen by Eurovision fans and an EBU reference group to participate in the Congratulations anniversary competition. It was the only Turkish entry featured and one of three winners from the '00s represented (the others being the Olsen Brothers' "Fly on the Wings of Love," which won the 2000 contest, and Helena Paparizou's "My Number One," which won the 2005 contest. Turkey broadcast the show on TRT, with commentary by their regular Eurovision commentator Bülend Özveren.

"Everyway That I Can" appeared tenth in the running order, following "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall and preceding "Ne partez pas sans moi" by Celine Dion. Like the majority of entries that night, the performance was mostly by a group of dancers alongside footage of Sertab Erener's Eurovision performance, culminating in Erener herself appearing to lip-sync the ending of the song. At the end of the first round, "Everyway That I Can" was not one of the five entries announced as proceeding to the second round. It was later revealed that the song finished ninth with 107 points. In the first round, Turkey awarded twelve points to "Everyway That I Can" (as, unlike at regular editions of the contest, countries were allowed to vote for their own entry). Following its elimination, Turkey's twelve points in the second round were awarded to Domenico Modugno's "Nel blu, dipinto di blu."