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The concerts have been organized in cooperation with the Turkish Embassies of the participating Balkan Countries. These concerts took place in the following cities: Athens (Greece), Sarajevo ( B&H), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Prizeren (Kosovo), Durrës (Albania) and Sofia (Bulgaria).
Various popular Turkish singers like Rafet El Roman, Yusuf Gyney, Kiraç and the extremely popular singer Mustafa Sandal performed at these big events.This year's Turkish representatives, MaNga, performed at a concert which was held in Sarajevo. Besides that, the 2008 Albanian representative Olta Boka performed as a guest singer of TRT at the concert which was held in Durrës.
TRT has broacast these big events live on four channels. Director of the Balkan Concerts, Gyrsoj Mustafa, said that the music is a common tradition that brings people of Balkan much closer. Gjyrsoj also said that these events finished successfully and have attracted more than 50.000 people.
The performance of MaNga in Sarajevo
The performance of Mustafa Sandal in Sofia
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Robot or no Robot! I love Manga :-)
By the way, the game between Serbia and Turkey was amazing..
Kenan
And Turkish team has Serbian coach - Bogdan Tanjevic! 
Don't forget that!
@w s
It's a rock group, what do you expect from them? Maybe flying? LOL
I didn't like the robot dancer either. The song didn't need all that fuss. In fact I was rather disappointed by Manga's performance. I think it could have been more simpler and stronger.
We'll see Kenan!!! 
@Marko
Yes I know. 
We will beat you!
Yes Kenan !
Tonight Turkey vs Serbia!!!! YAY!
@Marko
I really don't know ( actually nobody knows lol ), but IMHO it was a good idea to have her on the stage as I said below with the reasons.
Kenen
Of course!
And also how we can know that it will get more points without her? Maybe it will get less points without her! IMO it will....
@Marko
Yes, if Germany would have just 1 point more than Turkey then the robot girls' appearance would affect the votes then ( either with or without her ). But with 76 points???????
Kenan
Of course don't pay attention to comments like that:
Turkey cold win without robot woman on the stage!
When Germany had 246 points and Turkey 170, it's really strange (I don't wanna write smth worse) to say so! 
And by the way, it's really exaggerated to say without the robot dancer we could have won! Maybe without her we would gain 1-2 point more or less, but couldn't overtake Germany, they were 76 points ahead of us! And a robot who just made a few movements could NEVER change that!
I still think that if Manga wouldn't have had that stupid woman in the back (still do not understand the meaning, if there was one), they could have won as the song was just awesome....
Do you really think so? IMO she made the stage more proffessional ( and fiery ).
Axel
Noo robot was AMAZING, that's hit now to have robot on the stage! David Guetta and Rihanna had robots on the stage in their performances during whole year!
I still think that if Manga wouldn't have had that stupid woman in the back (still do not understand the meaning, if there was one), they could have won as the song was just awesome....
maNga is playing in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 23rd in Tivoli Gardens @ 2100 CET.
I think Manga are extreamly talented and their entry went down a storm in Eurovision! 
Well Done Boys and good luck with your international-tours!
Mustafa Sandal has to represent Turkey one day! if not in 2011 then some other time! I think he is Eurovision-material.
After they represented us PROUDLY in Eurovision and got the 2nd place in Oslo they enjoy a very well deserved internationally succes!
Go maNga, rock the stages where you go, we are all proud of YA!
@ Marko
maNga performed in Belgrade about month ago.
@ Azad, Bayramin kutlu olsun/ Happy eid
Mustafa Sandal with all those other singers? He definitely must've owned the stage
Oh yeh...iyi bayramlar to everyone
Also I think it would be great if Mustafa Sandal were to represent Turkey. Just a thought.
MaNga are awesome! Really happy that they represented Turkey this year as it introduced a unique genre.
I currently like their song 'Cevapsiz sorular'. Really great song.
@ Roselil, yes Greece is in the Balkans.
Mustafa Sandal will be there too
Is Greece a balcanic country???
It's nice, but they shouldn't skip Serbia from Balkans! 
And they were so AMAZING in Oslo! Perfect performance, kind of those which save contest today!!
I like manga, they were very good and deserved that 2nd place if they enter eurovision again i am pretty sure they can go no less than 2nd position again, however, turkey's choreography was ruined by that robot thing, it wasn't a good idea, it got between Manga song and the audience or viewers, without the robot manga would have much closer connection with audience and visible we could eb the same, but even better luck next time
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