Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997

Eurovision Song Contest 1997
Country	Turkey
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	1 March 1997
Selected entrant	Şebnem Paker
Selected song	"Dinle"
Finals performance
Final result	3rd, 121 points
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997. The country was represented by Şebnem Paker and Grup Etnic with the song “Dinle” written by Mehtap Altıntemiz and composed by Levent Çoker. Both Şebnem Paker and Levent Çoker had represented Turkey in the contest of the preceding year.The entry was chosen by a professional jury.

National Final

The professional jury announced the results on 1 March 1997 in Ankara.

Final - 1 March 1997

Artist	Song
Şebnem Paker and Group Ethnic	Dinle
Burcu Güneş	Gece
Serdar Aydemir	Aşkıma İnan
Şebnem Özsaran	Dördüncü Boyut
Seban Deniz	Hiç Gitme
Tüzmen & Elçin Engin	Şarkı
Tuba Önal	Sevda Bu Dostun
Erdal Çelik	Seninle
Pınar Karakoç	Sen nerede Ben orada
Ece Sandallı	Sevda

At Eurovision

On the night of the contest Şebnem performed 2nd in the running order following Cyprus and preceding Norway. At the close of the voting Dinle had received 121 points placing Turkey 3rd. This was the best result a Turkish song had ever reached up to 1997 (from 1975). 18 participants voted for Dinle. The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to Malta.

Voting

Points awarded to Turkey

Points Awarded to Turkey

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany Spain	Malta		Austria Greece Iceland Italy	Estonia France Hungary Sweden Switzerland
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Portugal	Russia United Kingdom		Ireland Netherlands

Points awarded by Turkey

12 points	Malta
10 points	Slovenia
8 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
7 points	United Kingdom
6 points	Ireland
5 points	Italy
4 points	Spain
3 points	Hungary
2 points	France
1 point	Netherlands