The build-up to this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria is already underway, as Albania’s national final took place last night. But JESC isn’t the only contest heating up. It’s been confirmed that Türkvizyon — the pan-European singing contest for the Turkic community — has decided to launch their own junior version.

The first ever edition of Bala Türkvizyon (Children’s Türkvizyon) will take place in Turkmenistan later this year, most likely in October or November. All competing participants must be aged between 8 to 15, and all entries must be sung in their national language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJSHNEgOGk

Thus far only Kazakhstan has confirmed its participation. They’ll choose their representative on 1 June. Their national selection show, broadcast on Khabar TV from 21:00 CET, will involve a a total of 16 entrants all aged between 8 to 13. The winner will be decided by a combination of jury and televoting.

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random.sage2.0
8 years ago

Looks like they’ve used clips from old Junior Eurovisoin, MGP Nordic (former scandi Junior Eurovision replacement), and old Turkvizyon vids.

Something about this screams “cheep ass contest” or “fan made lies”. I believe the former.

Plus, how’s Turkey gonna manage Turkvizyon, Bala Turkvizyon, Eurovision, and (possible) Junior Eurovision debut?

PP
PP
8 years ago

No Kazahstan to Eurovision, because we have every year that high points from them go to Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia,Belarus, Moldova….and maybe 1 or 2 points will go to another countries from ex soviet zone.

Melissa J
8 years ago

Oh, this is a train wreck waiting to happen. Turkvizyon, while a good time, is so disorganized every year. Last year Tuva showed up the night before asking to participate, the had to let three more countries into the final because of voting errors, and we didn’t even have the names of all the confirmed acts until they performed! I enjoy learning about the Turkic peoples across Eurasia, and there were a lot of great songs last year, but I think they should wait to throw spin off contests until they get the main one under control. Too many eggs… Read more »

Rashad
Rashad
8 years ago

Turkvision is just a lame version of Eurovision. And I’m against labeling kids as winners and losers. This is so wrong.

An Annoyed Turkish
An Annoyed Turkish
8 years ago

TRT, stop trying to make it happen, it’s not going to happen.

Roland
Roland
8 years ago

Just let Kazakhstan join Eurovision all righty!????

Daniel
Daniel
8 years ago

No way!

Mario
Mario
8 years ago

@ Greetings from Greece Paco <3
Love u amigo <3
Viva Espana <3

PACO
8 years ago

Hola Mario,quedate conmigo bailando en la lluvia hasta el amanecer,adoro que sientas AMOR por España.I LOVE EUROPE.

James
James
8 years ago

Love it how they used video clips from JESC 2014

Mario
Mario
8 years ago

@ Oh I know i am….Too much company with you & look what happened…
You made me just like you… :PP
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@ mocosuburbian
Actually it means fantastic,exceptional,grand,important..
Im always here to help 🙂
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@ Paco.. <3
Hola amigo… 🙂
Baila chiki chiki… <3
Amor Espana <3 🙂
Amor Giusepe Di Bella <3

mocosuburbian
mocosuburbian
8 years ago

I’ve always wanted to know what ‘GreAtY’ means by the way

Felix Prochain
Felix Prochain
8 years ago

They copy paste everything those turks and azers. So typical.

lol
lol
8 years ago

very pathetic you are mario

Mario
Mario
8 years ago

@ I want you to shut up..
I never cared what you or anyone actually thinks about my nickname or comments..
You have already written how you feel about me & my comments/nickname…Its only useless and pointless to repeat yourself loser..

paco
8 years ago

Lol usted necesita mas tolerancia y respeto hacia las personas que no piensa como usted.A quien le molesta los comentarios de Mario sobre the love gay?usted con esa actitud denota totalitarismo,quien es usted para censurar a nadie…El dios divino?en el mundo no todo es blanco o negro hay infinidad de matices.

lol
lol
8 years ago

get a life mario… seriously. So tired of hearing about your stupid gay love. !! nobody cares your comments !!

Leon
Leon
8 years ago

Oh boy…Given how bad the adult one was I can’t imagine how bad the junior one will be.

The TurkVizyon of Gay Love! :)
The TurkVizyon of Gay Love! :)
8 years ago

I love the pink flower as the logo of TurkVizyon <3
Pink is the gay colour of us homosexuals <3 🙂

I have a big celeb errotic crush on the turk hot sexy babe Murat Dalk?l?ç <3 😉
I hope that it will be this hunk that will represent Turkey in Sweden's Vision now that Turkey will return making the GreAtY comeback to our Vision of Gay Love <3 🙂

Murat is very hot on this videoclip <3 <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQAwbQzr8o

Hola
Hola
8 years ago

So i think Azerbaijan or Turkey will win xD

Hannes
8 years ago

Well, this will be interesting 😀

The TurkVizyon of Gay Love! :)
The TurkVizyon of Gay Love! :)
8 years ago

Well why not.. 🙂

Our EuroVision has several versions itself…
The main one..
The Junior one..
The music concert one..
The dance version one..

If they want to have their own Vision then let them have it.. 🙂

Deniz
Deniz
8 years ago

It is getting really annoying now, how they copy all eurovision-shows, while most of them hate it.

They even used jesc-clips in their trailer. Talk about originality.

But maybe I will watch it anyway.

The TurkVisyon of Gay Love! :)
The TurkVisyon of Gay Love! :)
8 years ago

Cool 🙂
We really need now a gay version of TurkVision please so all of the homosexuals turks will have their own euro contest to compete & enjoy <3 🙂

The Turk Vision of Gay Love ! <3 😉

Otna
Otna
8 years ago

Lol… seriously…