Türkstar was a 2004 Turkish reality television singing competition show based on the popular British show Pop Idol. It was hosted by Seray Sever, Gamze Özçelik and Haldun Dormen. It had extremely low ratings and only lasted one season. Türkstar is notable for being the only Idol franchise to have featured a singing duo (Meltem Denizci and Emrah Gökelma). Auditions The first series of Türkstar had 9 audition cities to find the best talent in all of Turkey, including: Adana Ankara Antalya Diyarbakır Edirne İstanbul İzmir Trabzon Munich, Germany Türkstar Jury Zerrin Özer - Turkish singer. Armağan Çağlayan - A&R BMG France. Ercan Saatçi - Songwriter & musician. Ahmet San - Musician & choreographer. Contestants Meltem Denizci & Emrah Gökelma until now remain as the only duo to participate on an Idol show worldwide (auditioned, performed and got voted off together). Two members of the top 3, Simge Bağdatlı and Sertaç Yanmaz, were born and raised in Germany. The latter was a semifinalist on the first season of Türkstars German equivalent Deutschland sucht den Superstar. Semi Final Qualifyings Top 30 Format: 4 out of 10 making it in each week + one Wildcard Finalists (ages stated at time of contest) Notes Idols (franchise) Television series by Fremantle (company) 2004 Turkish television series debuts 2004 Turkish television series endings Kanal D original programming Turkish television series based on British television series