Turkvision Song Contest 2015
The Turkvision Song Contest 2015 was the third edition of the Turkvision Song Contest, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey; and organised by Turkish Music Box Television. A total of twenty-one Turkic regions, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, participated in the contest, as well as one Turkic ethnic groups who do not have a defined region. Several regions of the Russian Federation were on the preliminary participation list for the contest, but were later forced to withdraw due to the Ministry of Culture banning Russian regions from the TURKSOY organisation. There was no semi-final this year, whilst the final took place on 19 December 2015.
Location
On 22 November 2014, it was announced that the hosts for Turkvision 2015 would have been Turkmenistan. Mary, the capital city of Mary Province in Turkmenistan, had been previously chosen as the host city. However, on 21 February 2015 it was announced that the host city had been changed and the contest would then take place in Ashgabat. In late August 2015, the host city was changed yet again to Istanbul, Turkey.The contest was held in the Yahya Kemal Beyatli Cultural Centre, in Istanbul, Turkey. The centre has 10,000 covered seats of 30,000 seats at total in Küçükçekmece district of Istanbul.
Format
National host broadcaster
Unlike the previous two editions, there was no semi-final held for the 2015 edition. The final took place on 19 December 2015, and was organised by the host broadcaster Turkish Music Box Television.National jury members
Each participating country is represented by one jury member, confirmed as being on the jury were:- – Avni Qahili
- – Isa Melikov
- – Gunesh Abasova
- – Ahmed Švrakić
- – Erhan Hüseyin
- – Piotr Petkovic
- – Volkan Gucer
- – Afik Novruzov
- – Mesut Barış
- – Yalman Hacarov
- – Bolat Mazhagulov
- – Kanatbek Kultaev
- – Reşit İsmet Krüezi
- – Sedat Azizoglu
- – Ertan Birinci
- – Nejat Sali
- – Denis Mavrić
- – Ömer Gürcan
- – Cengiz Erdem
- – Madejda Malenkova
- – Çokay Koçar
Participants
Twenty-one Turkic regions, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, participated in the contest which took place on 19 December 2015. Below are the details of each of the participants.| Draw | Region | Artist | Song | Language | Points | Place | |
| 1 |  GermanyOther awardsIn addition to the contest winner, there were also three other awards presented during the show. These were as follows:
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