Some months ago, details began to emerge about a new song contest, one that would span two dozen Turkic-speaking countries across Eastern Europe and Asia. Eurovision fans raised eyebrows, especially given the falling-out between the EBU and Turkish broadcaster TRT over Eurovision’s rules. But I think there is plenty of room for two contests, especially at this time of the year.
Attempts had been made, as I wrote about, to launch this contest in earlier years, but this year it seems everyone got their act together, with Western Turkish university town Eskişehir acting as the host of the 2013 Türkvizyon song contest.

24 entries came from many European and Asian countries, as well as autonomous regions of larger countries and members of the Russian Federation. So we saw Northern Cyprus in the mix, the Crimea (a region of Ukraine), and all manner of places even a hardened Geography geek like me had never heard of.
On Thursday, 24 were reduced to 12 in a semi-final, and they fought it out to win last night. So what did I make of the finalists? Continue reading →
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