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 is notable for being the only Idol franchise to have featured a singing duo.

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.
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

Finalists

ContestantAgeHometownVoted OffLiveshow Theme
Emrah Keskin19TrabzonWinnerGrand Finale
Simge Bağdatlı26GermanyJune 19, 2004Grand Finale
Sertaç Yanmaz21GermanyJune 12, 2004
Ufuk Çakir29June 5, 2004
Abedin Sakirov17GermanyMay 29, 2004
Faruk Emre Kürklüoğlu21AnkaraMay 22, 2004
Ahmet Gülsen23İzmirMay 15, 2004
Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma22 & 24EdirneMay 8, 2004
Sevil Kul21GermanyMay 1, 2004
Seçil Hüner Ünsal30AntalyaApril 24, 2004
Açelya Kılıç20İzmirApril 17, 2004
Yusuf Emre Uzunca22AnkaraApril 10, 2004
Banu Ekşi24İzmirApril 3, 2004