ERT , the Greek public broadcaster was the first member of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950 and because it was a state with Military junta , Greece was n't able to enter the contest . After the Athens Polytechnic uprising and the fall of junda , Greece was again a democratic state and the first attempt to enter the contest was in 1974 with Marinella and her song Krasi , Thalassa Kai T ' Agori Mou . Greece did not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for " unknown reasons " according to the EBU , but it was discovered that the withdrawal was in protest of Turkey 's debut and its invasion of Cyprus in 1974 . Greece was disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 after it was revealed that Themis Adamantidis was to sing " Sarantapente Kopelies " ( Σαρανταπέντε Κοπελιές ) , a previously released song . After returning in 1983 , ERT decided that all of the possible songs were of " low quality " and decided not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 . Greece returned once again to the Contest in 1985 , and Polina was picked in the 1986 national selection to represent Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen , Norway , but ERT pulled out of the Contest unexpectedly . Polina stated that it was due to political troubles in Greece at the time , 6 but she noted that a Eurovision website had learned that the real reason was that the Contest was to be held the night before Orthodox Easter . Greece returned to the Contest in 1987 and performed each year until the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 , when it was not allowed to participate because its five-year points average had fallen under the limit for participation after Thalassa 's 20th-place finish in 1998 . The following year ERT announced that it would not return at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 due to financial reasons
Eurovision Song Contest 1975
Eurovision Song Contest 1975
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