Turkstar

infobox television
show_name = Turkstar
season = 1


format = Interactive reality game show
creator = Fremantle Media & Kanal D
starring = Haldun Dormen
Gamze Özçelik
Zerrin Özer
country = TUR
network = Kanal D
first_aired = 2004
last_aired = 2004Finalists(With dates of elimination)
Emrah Keskin"Winner" Simge Bağdatlı19 June Sertaç Yanmaz12 June Ufuk Çakir5 June Abedin Sakirov29 May Faruk Emre Kürklüoğlu22 May Ahmet Gülsen15 May Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma8 May Sevil Kul1 May Seçil Hüner Ünsal24 April Açelya Kılıç17 April Yusuf Emre Uzunca10 April Banu Ekşi3 April
website = http://www.kanald.com.tr

Turkstar is a reality television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Turkey. It is hosted by Seray Sever, Gamze Özçelik & Haldun Dormen. While the show is the first and currently only Idol franchise to feature a duo, it had extremely bad ratings and was discontinued.

Auditions

The first series of Turkstar had 9 audition cities to find the best talent in all of Turkey, including:

*Adana

*Ankara

*Antalya

*Diyarbakır

*Edirne

*İstanbul

*İzmir

*Trabzon

*Munich, Germany

Turkstar Jury

* Zerrin Özer - Turkish singer.

* Armağan Çağlayan - A&R BMG France.

* Ercan Saatçi - Songwriter & musician.

* Ahmet San - Musician & choreographer.

Contestants

Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma until now remain as the only duo to participate on an Idol Show worldwide (auditioned, performed and got voted off together).
Two members of the top 3, Simge Bağdatlı and Sertaç Yanmaz, were born and raised in Germany. The latter one was a semifinalist on the first season of Turkstars german equivalent Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

emi Final Qualifyings

Top 30
Format: 4 out of 10 making it in each week + one Wildcard