This afternoon the official Türkvizyon Song Contest website published the names of all 25 participating countries and regions. They are:
- Azerbaijan
- Bashkortostan
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Crimea
- Dagestan (début)
- Gagauzia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Iraq
- Iran
- Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia
- Kazakhstan
- Khakassia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Macedonia
- Northern Cyprus (return)
- Romania
- Tatarstan
- Turkey (Host country)
- Turkmenistan
- Tuva
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Yakutia
This (maybe not final) list means that Albania and Moscow withdrew from the contest after their début in 2014. The return of Northern Cyprus is possible thanks to Turkey being the only country recognizing it as an independent state.
Source: Turkvizyon.tv
Wasn’t it Baris Grup who was banned after representing Iran at Türkvizyon 2014? And Iran is participating? What?
I don’t think it was a real bann. In Iran there are about 30 million Turk and they can’t do such a thing not to make them angry. In Northern part of Iran, “South Azerbaijan” is a culturally Turk region and i even saw Hamaneyn’s Turkish speech there, in Tabriz