The Golden Microphone () was a music contest annually held between 1965 and 1968 in Turkey. It was organized by the newspaper Hürriyet. In 1960s, most of the Turkish popular music melodies were either songs from western Europe with Turkish lyrics or traditional Turkish folk melodies played with western instruments. The goal of the contest was to encourage the development of popular Turkish music either by new compositions or by using domestic sources. More formally, Hürriyet announced the goal of the contest as "Redirecting Turkish music using technique and style of western music as well as the instruments of western music".
Winners YearRankGroupTitle19651stYıldırım GürsesGençliğe Veda2ndMavi IşıklarHelvacı3rdSilüetlerKaşık Havası19661stSilüetlerLorke Lorke2ndMavi IşıklarÇayır Çimen Geze Geze3rdSelçuk AlagözArarım19671stMavi ÇocuklarDeveli Daylar2ndCem KaracaEmrah3rdRana AlagözKonya Kabağı19681stTPAO BatmanMeşelidir Enginde Dağlar2ndHaramilerArpa Buğday Daneler3rdMoğollarIlgaz
Later years Altın Mikrofon was a milestone in Turkish music. Although Hürriyet gave up organizing the contest after 1968, two other newspapers tried to continue: Günaydın in 1972 and Saklambaç in 1979. But these later contests unlike the earlier contests, didn't attracted much attention and they too gave up. The results of these were as follows: YearRankGroupTitle19721stEdip AkbayramKükredi Çimenler2ndSalim DündarBir dost bulamadım3rdÖmer AysanMış mış19791stÜnal BüyükgönençDışarda Kar yağıyor
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