While it was announced in June that talks with Eurovision had resumed and hopes rose, Turkey was not included in the list of Eurovision 2022 participants. There is no explanation yet as to why Turkey did not participate this year.
The Eurovision contest, which Turkey last participated in in 2012, still continues to be missed. So much so that with our departurewish we could join again‘ comments continue today. Until the past months, there was no hopeful statement from Turkey about the contest, which we withdrew due to the unfairness of the scoring system.
However, in June, TRT General Manager İbrahim Eren made a statement that raised his hopes that we would participate in Eurovision in 2022. Eren stated that talks with Eurovision had started again. However, the announced participants of the Eurovision 2022 contest, showed that our hopes were in vain.
Turkey will not take part in Eurovision 2022:
Details of the Eurovision contest, which will be held in Italy in May 2022, have been announced. In the list of participating countries Turkey was not included. Therefore, the hopes that came with the news of the resumption of talks were dashed.
41 countries will participate in the Eurovision song contest, which will be held for the 66th time this year. In addition, Slovakia, Monaco, Luxembourg, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Andorra, which had previously said goodbye to the Eurovision contest, like Turkey. won’t be returning to the competition this year.