Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975

Eurovision Song Contest 1975
Country	Turkey
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selected entrant	Semiha Yankı
Selected song	"Seninle Bir Dakika"
Finals performance
Final result	19th, 3 points
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1975. The country was represented by Semiha Yankı with the song “Seninle Bir Dakika” written by Hikmet Münir Ebcioğlu and composed by Kemal Ebcioğlu. The entry was chosen during a national final called Şarkı Yarışması. It came last in the Eurovision 1975.

National Final

The final took place on 9 February 1975 at the studios of TRT, Bülend Özveren was hosting the event. 17 songs were submitted and the winning song was picked by averaging the ranks from the professional jury and people's jury.

**Final - 9 February 1975**
Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Uğur Akdora	Anılar	N/A	N/A
2	Esin Afşar	Canı sıkılan adam	N/A	N/A
3	Yeşim	Böyle mi başlar	N/A	N/A
4	Atilla Atasoy	Dilenci	N/A	N/A
5	Gökhan Abur	Bir gün karşılaşırsak	N/A	N/A
6	Cici Kızlar	Delisin	N/A	2
7	Cahit Oben	Özlenen sevgi	N/A	N/A
8	İskender Doğan	Günahsızlar	N/A	N/A
9	Füsün Önal	Minik Kuş	N/A	3
10	Zerrin Yaşar	Çiçekler	N/A	N/A
11	Nejat & Reha	Caniko	N/A	N/A
12	Serter Bağcan	Mümkün değil	N/A	3
13	Yeliz	Hayalimdeki adam	N/A	2
14	Ali Rıza Binboğa	Yarınlar	N/A	3
15	Semiha Yankı	Seninle bir dakika	N/A	1
16	Şenay	Umut	N/A	N/A
17	Nilüfer	Boşver

At Eurovision

On the night of the contest Yankı performed 13th in the running order following Monaco and preceding Israel. At the close of the voting Seninle bir dakika had received 3 points (from Monaco), placing Turkey 19th (last). This was the fourth time that a country had come last on its debut. The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to Portugal.