"Yorgunum anla" was the Turkish

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 entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Eurovision Song Contest 2000

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May 2000 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilsson's victory in Jerusalem the previous year. It was the first time since 1996 that the contest was held on mainland Europe. The...

. Pınar Ayhan, who performed the entry with her backing group, the S.O.S., also co-wrote the song.

The song did better than many of the typical ethnic Turkish entries, finishing in tenth place, helped by two top-mark scores, from the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and France

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. For her performance, Pinar wore a long, white sleeveless gown, while her two backing dancers wore black. The three backing singers, who included a man on guitar and another on accordion, wore white shirts and black trousers.