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[UPD]Turkey: Hadise entirely in charge of Eurovision entry
TRT officially confirms, today, through their web site that Hadise will represent Turkey in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The singer herself is calling all the shots by given cart blanche to choose the creators of the song as well as the language she will sing in.
The language of the song for the Eurovision Song Contest is always a much debated question in Turkey. Many people defend that if Turkey competes then it must be with a song in Turkish. But many also think that English could provide higher points in the contest.
After the language rule was abolished in 1999, Turkey competed in Turkish 3 times, English 3 times and Turkish-English 4 times, achieving its highest place in 2003 when Sertab Erener won with Everyway that I can.
[UPD] Hadise made her first appearance on the TRT evening news tonight where she spoke about her immediate plans. On a telephone interview, the popular Turkish singer confirmed the rumours that she had indeed been approached by the Belgian broadcaster twice in the past two years who wished to send her to the Eurovision Song Contest. Hadise stated she was honoured but refused as she was hoping to represent her homeland, Turkey, one day. Soon, she will be visiting Istanbul to meet her team and togetherthey wil decide on the song. She is also planning to write some lyrics herself as she believes she has a talent she wants to show the world.
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@ to all! Hey i am Greek living in Belgium like hadise ! And for your information ...
Hadise will get 12pts from Belgium (for sure) and i think That Hadise will win the whole thing!
WHY always that Negativity about Turkey,Greece! I dont get it! I wish all the best to Hadise because she is simply FANTASTIC......i will vote for her for sure 
because for me she hasnt make a bad song so far! Her music is modern and i am sure that Europe will fall for her style .......
ps : what is wrong to be proud of your country(every country has something special and unique)
ps2: to be proud and to be nationalistic is something completely different...
people are entitled to waht they wanna say, either possitive or negative, eveyone have their own opinion. FULL STOP
HADISE ' s live stage performances are pretty impressive and make us to watch breathless for example hope u like this one of them
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=xsDFtH5OQjs
canim o'neal B. Agzina saglik guzel yazmissin they live with their past so they don't understand .I'm Cypriot aswell but I love Turkish people so much actually I love all people because I'm citizen of world (Turkish Cypriot) . I m sure that hadise will win RSC 2009 who is the best win it I love you guys.
@people who criticize Hadise for representing Turkey instead of Belgium
Hadise may have been born in Belgium,but this does not mean that she will turn her back on Turkey!Many Turks living outside Turkey feel very connected to their homeland and are ready to do anything for it since it is something very sacred for them!They never forget who they are and where they are originally from...
She is free to choose any country she wants to represent and this is non of your business!!!
@A H [25152]
Sat 25 Oct 2008 15:55:36
My dear Cypriot friend, per your concern on whether Belgium will vote for Hadise or not, don't worry at all, she will get some (!) points as Anna Vissi got from Cyprus, Helena from Sweden and so on... I don't even speak about Lisa Andreas and Anette Artani.
Come on guys, OK, you don't love Turks or you just want to criticise something..Please be logical, put some intellingence in it...
Nevermind, you can never change, do whatever you want...
Good luck Hadise, you deserve all the best. ESC 2010 would best suit a European Capital of Culture ;o)
dude u make the best expression here totaly agree with u .
I agree with Marlens. I don't understand why everyone makes a big fuss about her choice. Would you mind if she were a Belgian origin Turkish who was born, educated in Turkey and became famous there, and represent Belgium? I guess, you wouldn't as you would consider as Belgian.
Respected in Belgium? LMAO, noone ethnically Belgian, German, Dutch or French consider diaspora Turks, as you call them, call them as Belgian, German, Dutch or French. Even, YOU, so-called open-minded people, label them as DIASPORA rather than accepting they belong to the nation of the country they live in. Even many German fans, as far as I've been told, don't consider 1999 entry as German entry. So, after having discriminated people for long time, you shouldn't expect them to feel a part of those specific countries.
In English please 
Btw...I don't understand why people want to make a big deal about which is her homecountry. I have been in Ghent so many times since my grandmother is from there, and no ethnic Blegian looks on Turks from Belgium as Belgian, so they treat them like immigrants. So how can a multiculturall Blegian look at Blegium as their homecountry when the ethnic Belgians don't look at them as equal? The same is in every country, if you are a normal "forigen" then you are not Swedish, Norwegian and so on, but if you are a "forigen" thats become famous, then you are. Like Elena Paparizou, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Shan "The Man" Atci are all famous forigens from Sweden that they love to call for Swede now, but before they became famous then the Swedes called them alot of racistic words. Off...too long message
My dear Cypriot friend, per your concern on whether Belgium will vote for Hadise or not, don't worry at all, she will get some (!) points as Anna Vissi got from Cyprus, Helena from Sweden and so on... I don't even speak about Lisa Andreas and Anette Artani.
Come on guys, OK, you don't love Turks or you just want to criticise something..Please be logical, put some intellingence in it...
Nevermind, you can never change, do whatever you want...
Good luck Hadise, you deserve all the best. ESC 2010 would best suit a European Capital of Culture ;o)
http://www.hcsc2008.eu/
siteye girip bana oy atın lütfen!!!
Please go there and vote for YAKUP please
How can she lift honour with cold shoulders! She has already proved unprofessional manner in response to belgian broadcaster approach.
I wonder if Belgium is gonna award any points to Hadise after being such a traitor for turning down the offer by the Belgian broadcaster twice in the past two years and not wanting to represent Balgium where she lived and respected but instead responding to TRT with worm welcome. And if she told Belgian broadcaster this is the reason why she doesn't want to represent Belgium it is even worst.
I don't see how this Hadise can win esc or achieve good result, i have no confidence in her with her cold shoulders.
It might work better if she makes decision regarding her ESC entry what song she feels is best for her to choose since she is gonna sing it. But TRT must have objectives that Hadise must meet with. They must work together to plan.
A cart blanche ? Hmm, good - Hadise should sing a modern english song, if she really wants to win. Just like Sertab - a song in turkish will never win the ESC I fear, and I think TRT really wants to win, as Istanbul will be one of Europe's capital of culture in 2010. So why no celebrate that year with hosting the ESC too 
?
many Brits live in Spain, France and buy houses in Slovakia, Slovenia,Poland etc..........but either do not watch ESC because we don't get votes from those countries
I think there are 2 reasons for that. One reason could be that they are older and an older person may vote once...if at all...a teenager will vote 10 times..LOL
Another reason is that people feel a different connection to a country that they HAD to leave (for reasons of unemployment or poverty or bad political situation etc) and to a country they CHOSE to leave just because they want to live somewhere else.
Also it could be that the Uk (and other western countries) have been in Eurovision for ages, have had many good results and they're not as passionate about it anymore...whereas for Greece, Turkey, eastern countries victory or even a top 10 position is a novelty so they're more likely to watch Eurovision and vote many times for their country.
Sing in Turkish, please. And very good luck for Turkey!
Mina
Yes I see what you mean, it is an interesting phenomenon because many Brits live in Spain, France and buy houses in Slovakia, Slovenia,Poland etc..........but either do not watch ESC because we don't get votes from those countries.
However I believe that Greeks living in the UK are far more likely to vote for Greece than say 20 years ago, and I wonder why this is. [for example]
I think that the past 10 years we have all changed our habits, for instance I always believed that I voted for the song but not the country, yet now although I still do that I will never vote for Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey, Belarus, Armenia etc because I know that they all start with a headstart!!!
ESC İSTANBUL 2010,it gonna be very nice , because istanbul is cultural capital of europe in 2010 !!! eurovision will be a color of 2010 for istanbul. i think trt will make the greatest eurovision contest ever!!!
you rock Hadise!!!
go Türkiye!!!
So we have a flemish and a walloon entry in 2009... I wonder who will get most points .
I would like to hear her sing partly in Dutch/Flemish. I know it's unrealistic, but on the other hand: Germany has send a song partly in Turkish, so why not the other way around? I think it would be good for the integration of the Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands and Belgium and maybe also the opposite way.
John,
it happens in the US, too when someone's parents were raised in another country and they still keep the traditions of that country. Ofcourse if we're talking about someone whose great grandparents came from another country and his grandparents and parents have never even been to that country but were raised in America, they will feel more American.
I know many Greeks who live in America and they feel more Greek than American, they try to speak Greek at home, they go to Greek churches, they put the Greek flag on their balcony on days of national holidays and so on.
The fact that Hadise considers Turkey as her homeland doesn't mean she doesn't appreciate Belgium..I'm sure she does...but, you know, people from Turkey (or Greece or eastern Europe) only left their country because they would have more job opportunities in another country, not because they didn't love the country they come from...the fact that they had to leave sometimes makes them love their country even more.
It's harder for western Europeans to understand it, I think.
About Hadise, I don't know much about her but I can understand her position..she was hoping she would be asked to represent Turkey one day..if she accepted to represent Belgium, she knew it would be very difficult to return to Eurovision representing Turkey some day..I think that's all.
I think Hadise will perform a very attractive show in Moscow..Looking forward to it...
I agree I think that this is the concept that I have a problem with 'homeland'
you live in a country like Belgium, you have education, health, democracy, life from that nation, but still regard your parents country as your homeland.............this does not happen in the US............it is interesting, I have clients who fled terror in Eastern Europe, live in UK, but still feel that strong affiliation with the Eastern nation...........I understand it and don't understand it
This is what affects Euro voting
Hadise, seriously honey your "homeland" is not Turkey it's Belgium, your parents and heritage maybe Turkish but the country that raised you and fed you is the one you should be representing. That being said I love Turkey
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I agree wtih İrem.
Go Hadise GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I agree with Galantis Loukakis that all country's should be singing in their own language !! I like to wish Turkey and Hadise all the best of luck with a great song in TURKISH !!!
English and a little bit Turkish, like in "stir me up" 
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