Tatarstan in the Turkvision Song Contest

Tatarstan
Member station	Maidan Television
National selection events	National Selection 2013
Participation summary
Appearances	2
First appearance	2013
Best result	2nd: 2014
Worst result	4th: 2013

Tatarstan are one of the twenty-four participating countries and regions competing in the first Turkvision Song Contest scheduled to take place between the 17 and 21 December 2013.

Tatarstan made their début in the Turkvision Song Contest at the 2013 festival, in Eskişehir, Turkey. It was announced on October 19, 2013 that Tatarstan would hold a televised selection for Turkvizyon with the final taking place on 21 November 2014. On 8 November 2013, the 20 artists taking part in the contest were announced, Alinä Şäripcanova won the selection with the song "Üpkälämim" (Үпкәләмим).

Kazan was announced as the host city for the 2014 contest on 2 November 2013. On 5 August 2014, Maidan TV opened the submissions process for their national selection, the final was announced as being held on 20 September 2015. On 3 September 2015, the 23 singers that were selected for the final were announced.

The winner Aydar Suleymanov was a last minute addition to the competition, he was selected as the winner by a jury to represent Tatarstan in Kazan. In the semi final Tatarstan performed 11th and won the semi final with a total of 223 points. In the final Tatarstan were drawn to perform 15th, they finished in 2nd place with a total of 201 points.

 1st place   2nd place   3rd place   Last place   Withdrew/Disqualified 

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