Turkey confirmed their participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which was held in Oslo, Norway. Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) was responsible for the country's entry at the Contest. TRT announced that it would choose 8 artists internally and decide the participant in January 2010.

After Hadise's 4th place in Moscow at the 2009 Contest major speculation of who would represent Turkey in the 2010 Contest arose. The first names announced by Turkish media were in July 2009, when it was speculated that TRT had approached Tarkan to represent Turkey at the contest in Oslo, Norway. Murat Boz was also speculated at being a possible Turkish entry in May 2010. This was followed by confirmation in the Turkish newspaper Sabah that Tarkan would represent the country in May, with agreements confirmed between him and TRT. However this was later denied by both Tarkan's management and TRT.

Further names speculated by the media included Nazan Öncel, who may write an entry for the contest and has been contacted by TRT for such. Öncel denied any contact with the broadcaster however she did mention an interest in writing a Turkish Eurovision entry. Other names who indicated an interest in representing Turkey included Ziynet Sali.Ajda Pekkan, who represented Turkey at the 1980, had been approached by TRT to enter in 2010, however she refused the offer.

Five names have been tipped by the media as being candidates: Şebnem Ferah, Deniz Arcak, Sibel Tüzün (who represented Turkey in 2006), Hadise (who represented Turkey in 2009) and maNga, winners of the "Best Turkish Act" and "Best European Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. maNga was speculated as being the strongest candidate for Eurovision after the MTV Europe Music Awards, however the group later denied that they had been given an invitation by TRT, but said that should they receive the invitation they would accept it. However on 19 November the Milliyet newspaper claimed that maNga is the favourites to be the Turkish Eurovision entry in Oslo.

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