Turkey TURKEY 2018 - Not taking part

[GRE]

Oh no..

http://www.escapenews.org/trt-eurovision-grubunu-dagitiyor/

 

[Realest]

Oh no..

http://www.escapenews.org/trt-eurovision-grubunu-dagitiyor/

What does it say?

 

[AlekS]

^ TRT shut down their department responsible for Eurovision and connections with the EBU.

 

[A-lister]

^ TRT shut down their department responsible for Eurovision and connections with the EBU.

No loss... TRT is too busy promoting the islamo-fascist self-proclaimed "Sultan" Erdögan who is busy helping ISIS warriors and killing Kurds... in its current state, Turkey has no place in Eurovision.

I do feel sorry for the Turkish Eurovision fans though, and hope that Turkey can miraculously turn its course around and join the club of decency again and then be back in Eurovision, but until that day comes...

 

[Geborgenheit]

Sad for Turkey.

 

[SwedishFailurez]

 

[Sammy]

this picture has a link to Eurovision because.....?

 

[SwedishFailurez]

this picture has a link to Eurovision because.....?

Because TRT has basically burned the bridge with EBU and may be among countries like Morocco to never return. That's a horrible unfortunate for the entire Turkish Eurovision-community, it's like a royal funeral

 

[ag89]

Re: TURKEY 2018

Don't know if you saw it, but Eurovision host arena in Istanbul (2004), Abdi Ipekci, is no more - they are building the new one (larger) instead of this iconic basketball arena.

 

[Sean]

Didn't realise breaking all ties with Eurovision meant knocking down the arena it was hosted in too

 

[ag89]

Didn't realise breaking all ties with Eurovision meant knocking down the arena it was hosted in too

No, these two things are not related, but I find it funny how this happened just when they moved farther from Eurovision.