Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 Sufi had received 37 points, placing Turkey fifteenth. 8 participants had voted for Sufi. In the 1985 contest Turkey had received 36 points from 8 countries. Atilla Şereftuğ, the composer of the winner ("Ne partez pas sans moi" by Celine Dion) was a Turk living in Switzerland . The Turkish jury awarded its 12 points to United Kingdom. This was the first time that Turkey gave points to Greece (3 out of 10) . Votes of the Turkish jury: Votes received by the Turkish song: Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 Turkey was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1988 for the 1984 Contest, where it had finished in 3rd place. This was classed as a breach of the Cypriot rules of selecting their entry at this time as well as an infringement of the Eurovision Song Contest rules. It was a very late decision as the song was already drawn to perform second in the contest, advertised in the Radio Times information about the preview programme of the contest, and appears as song number two in accordance to its initial performance draw, on the record release “Melodi Grand Prix 1988” – the compilation disc of the contest’s entries. This