Turkvision Song Contest 2016


Turkvision Song Contest 2016 would have been the fourth edition of the Turkvision Song Contest, and was scheduled to take place at the Yahya Kemal Beyatli Cultural Centre, in Istanbul, Turkey; and organised by TMB TV and Azad Azerbaijan TV.
Twenty-six Turkic regions, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, had confirmed their participation in the contest.,,,,,, and were expected to be making their debut, whilst,,,,,,, and were going to be returning after a. had chosen not to return to the contest and would no longer be in joint-participation with, meaning the latter would have been participating as a single region. also initially planned to return to the contest and had selected their participant, but later withdrew from competing.
In February 2017, two months after the contest was supposed to air, it was announced as being cancelled, and Kazakhstan were announced as the hosts for the Turkvision Song Contest 2017 in Astana. Apparently, it was too much to ask, because it too was cancelled, and the contest has not been held since.

Location

In May 2016 it was announced by Subhane Isgenderova the Azerbaijan Head of Delegation that Antalya was going to be the host city for the fourth edition of the contest. However, on 11 July 2016, it was later confirmed that the announcement made Isgenderova was in fact incorrect, and the official host city would be Istanbul.

Venue

Had the 2016 contest gone ahead as scheduled the venue would have been for the second consecutive year, the Yahya Kemal Beyatli Cultural Centre, which has 10,000 covered seats of 30,000 seats at total in Küçükçekmece district of Istanbul.

Format

Just like the 2015 edition, which had no semi-final stage because of the withdrawals from from the contest due to the international relations between the Russian Federation and Turkey in 2015, it was announced that the same format would have continued at the 2016 edition.

National host broadcaster

On 15 July 2016 it was confirmed that Turkish Music Box Television would have been the host broadcaster for the second consecutive year, which would have been responsible for the organisation of the contest.

Cancellation

On 8 December 2016, it was announced that the contest had been delayed until March 2017, marking the first time since the inaugural contest in 2013 that a postponement of the contest had occurred. However, it was later confirmed that the 2016 contest had been cancelled for unknown reasons. The contest was rescheduled to take place between 8–10 September 2017 at the Barys Arena, in Astana, Kazakhstan, but was cancelled again on 20 October.

Provisional list of participants

Twenty-six Turkic regions, which have either a large Turkic population or a widely spoken Turkic language, had confirmed their participation in the contest, fifteen of which had selected their artist. Shir Charyev was announced as participating, although details as to which country he would have represented had not been disclosed.
RegionLanguageArtistSong
Sevinj Bayaz
BashkirZilia Bakhtieva"Donya Mathur"
AzerbaijaniSvetlana Agarval"Məni anla"
Crimean TatarAlseda Seydaliyeva"Feleğimsin"
Yulia Arnaut
Turkish, GermanSeyran
Aris Appaev
KumykDaniyal Harunow
TurkishOksana Bilera"Yakışıyor bize bu sevgi"
AzerbaijaniElcan"Ana vatan"
TurkishPolina Stefoglo"Yallah Yallah!"
TurkishOlga Shimanskaya"Masal gibi bu dünya"
TurkishSunai Giolacai
AzerbaijaniArghavan"Dirçəliş"
GagauzNatalia PapazogluTikenli yol

Other Turkic regions