Aylin Vatankoş

Aylin Vatankoş is a Turkish singer born in Izmir in 1970. Known for representing Türkiye in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest; In the following years, he worked mostly in the field of classical Turkish music and classical music.

He received his music education in the voice education department of Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory. In 1992, he won the national audition organized by TRT in Ankara with the song "Yaz Bitti" composed by Aldoğan Şimşekyay. He performed in fourth place at the competition final in Malmö, Sweden, and finished 19th with 17 points. During the same period, he worked as a contract artist at TRT.

His first album "I Couldn't Solve It" was released in 1995. Afterwards, he did not release an album under his own name for a long time, and during these years he performed vocals in the recordings of other artists. He returned in 2010 with the nine-track album "Yeniden", consisting of neoclassical arrangements. In 2020, he released his single titled "Kalbim Kavrulsun".

Vatankoş is among the names representing Türkiye in Eurovision history and continues his stage work in the line of classical Turkish music.