Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Eurovision Song Contest 1988
Country	Turkey
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	13 February 1988
Selected entrant	Mazhar Fuat Özkan (MFÖ)
Selected song	"Sufi"
Finals performance
Final result	15th, 37 points
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

Turkey was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 by a music trio named Mazhar Fuat Özkan (names of the members) with the song "Sufi", written and composed by the trio. The entry was chosen by a professional jury.

National final

The jury asked 17 composers for a song to compete in the national final. 16 songs were submitted and competed on 13 February 1988; Sufi was declared the winner.

**13 February 1988**
Draw	Singer	Band Singers	Vocals	Şong	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Place
1.	Kayahan & 3. Nesil	İskender Paydaş & Volkan Başaran & Meltem Parlak & Murat Çimenli & Fergan Mirkelam	—	Sokak kedisi	Kayahan Açar	Kayahan Açar	Ümit Eroğlu
2.	Grup Gündoğarken	İlhan Şeşen, Burhan Şeşen, Gökhan Şeşen	—	Resimler resimler	İlhan Şeşen	İlhan Şeşen	Turhan Yükseler
3.	MFÖ	Mazhar Alanson & Fuat Güner & Özkan Uğur	—	Sufi	Mazhar Alanson	Fuat Güner	Turhan Yükseler	1
4.	Sevingül Bahadır	—	Seden Kutlubay, Elif İnce	Bulutlar	Meltem Bal	Aslıgül Kırıcı	Melih Kibar
5.	Grup Tema	Arzu Ece & Çiğdem Tunç	—	Zig Zag	Mazhar Alanson	Selçuk Başar	Selçuk Başar
6.	Grup Vizyon	Zeynep Traman & Rüya Ersavcı & Hasan Alptekin & Tayfun Duyguluer	—	Diskotek	İlhan İrem	Esin Engin	Esin Engin
7.	Grup 88	Adnan Ergil & Batuhan Şenyücel & Yonca Evcimik & Şaziye Onuray	—	Fazla vaktim yok	Nezih Topuzlu	Selmi Andak	Uğur Dikmen
8.	Aysun Kocatepe	—	—	Bir dolu yaz	Ali Kocatepe	Ali Kocatepe	Özkan Turgay
9.	Cantekin	—	Kısa Dalga Vokal Grubu, İzel Çeliköz, Ebru Yalçın, Ozan Demiralp	Kim	Zeynep Sayan	Erol Sayan	Osman İşmen
10.	Grup Piramit	Hakan Girit & Cem Bezeyiş & Feyyaz Kuruş & Ayhan Sayıner & Okan Tolga Merter	—	Sana bağlamıştım	Grup Piramit	Grup Piramit	Levent Çoker
11.	Grup Denk	Oya Küçümen & Bora Ebeoğlu	—	Onikiden	Bora Ebeoğlu	Turhan Yükseler	Turhan Yükseler	2
12.	Grup Efekt	Cihan Okan & Seden Kutlubay	Elif İnce & Gülgün Yıldız & Adalet Güzey & Reyhan Karaca	Camdan bir ev	Zeynep Talu	Melih Kibar	Melih Kibar
13.	Ultraviyole	İlhan İrem & Gür Akad & Selim Sayarı & Elif Turhan & Murat Tümer	—	Yurtta barış dünyada barış	İlhan İrem	İlhan İrem	Aykut Gürel
14.	Zafer Olcay	—	—	Barış ve sevgi dolu	Adnan Ergil	Buğra Uğur	Buğra Uğur
15.	Emel & Erdal	Emel Müftüoğlu & Erdal Çelik	Tanju Eren, Levent Yücel, Tibet Ağartan, Gürkan Kurtkaya	Aşk yaşamaya değer	Emel & Erdal	Uğur Başar	Uğur Başar
16.	Fatih Erkoç	—	Ümit Açıkalın, Aylin Söğüt, Gülgün Yıldız	Bitmesin bu sonbahar	Cansın Erol	Dr. Selahattin İçli	Turhan Yükseler

At Eurovision

On the night of the contest Mahzar Fuat Özkan performed fifth, after the United Kingdom and before the Netherlands. At the close of the voting Sufi had received 37 points, placing Turkey fifteenth. 8 participants had voted for Sufi. In the 1985 contest Turkey had received 36 points from 8 countries. Atilla Şereftuğ, the composer of the winner ("Ne partez pas sans moi" by Celine Dion) was a Turk living in Switzerland . The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to United Kingdom.^[1]

This was the first time that Turkey gave points to Greece (3 out of 10) .