Turkish Style Survivor (2017)

Turkish Style Survivor is a lot different version of the popular reality Survivor. It follows the format of American Survivor, but there are so many differences. Turkish style Survivor is not only popular in Turkey but also popular in Greece. The producer of Turkish Style Survivor (Acun Media) also started s Survivor show in Greece and that show breaks a record number of views in Greece’s television.  Turkish Style Survivor in Greece has reportedly hit 60-65 percent TV share.

Format and Rules

Unlike the American version that airs once a week, the Turkish version aired four or five times a week. The show’s duration is very long, in 2 and a half hours clean screen time (3 and a half hours with commercial time added)

There are 27 contestants (in season 2017), instead of the usual 16. The contestants are initially separated into tribes. One tribe is called “Celebrities” the other is called “Volunteers”.  Celebrities usually consist of former soccer players, ex athletes, swimmers, actors/actresses, singers or models. Volunteers are normal people but most of them have sport background.

In each week they do challenges, one is for food, two is for immunity and the other one is for something called ”communication reward” where the winner team gets the opportunity to see photos and messages from their family and friends.

When either of the tribe members decreases to 2, individual matches start.

Location and Time

Dominican Republic. For 5 months.

Voting Style   

Each week, there is a Tribal Council. The team that loses the immunity game makes the Tribal Council. At Tribal Councils, each contestants has an equal voting right to determine who would be eliminated. Whoever gets the most votes at these councils becomes the nominee to leave the island. Also, the contestant who wins the individual immunity has a right to choose the 2nd nominee to leave the island.  There are two immunity games in each week and thus, there are 4 nominees that start to be voted by the viewers. The contestant who gets the least SMS votes from the public leaves the island.

Critics

Gaining Weight Throughout the Show

We never know how much weight each contestant have lost or gained over the course of the show.  Is it really difficult to disclose “Weight Before Survivor” and  “Weight After Survivor”.

Most of the contestants lose a significant amount of weight at the beginning. During the 8th-10th week of the show, we usually watch how much weight the contestants have lost. Until this deadline, contestants really lose weight. But after then we are not informed about their weight. After this deadline, most of the contestants (both men and women) are getting weight.

Additionally, Survivor depletes males’ muscles. It is possible that without proper nutrition and workout, people can lose their muscles. But, it is still weird that most of the male contestants start to have Turkish belly.

Making Demagogy to Get SMS Voting

In order to earn a spot back in the game, nominees at the Tribal Council make a speech to the public for 2-3 minutes. Usually, we see that nominees cry, speak about justice/injustice, their willingness to stay in the island etc. Most of the time, demagogy works in Turkey.

Survivor Turkey 2017

Contestants

List of Survivor Turkey 2017 Contestants
Contestant Ocupation Original tribe Merged tribe
Adem Kilicci Kickboxer Celebrities Merged Tribe
Berna Ozturk DJ Celebrities
Fatih Hurkan Actor Celebrities
Furkan Kizilay Actor, Singer Celebrities
Ilhan Mansiz Former football player Celebrities Merged Tribe
Pinar Saka Former athlete Celebrities
Sabriye Sengul Kickboxer Celebrities Merged Tribe
Seda Demir Actress Celebrities
Sedat Kaburtu Singer Celebrities
Sema Apak Former athlete Celebrities Merged Tribe
Serhat Akin Former football player Celebrities Merged Tribe
Sahika Ercumen Free-Diver Celebrities
Tarik Menguc Singer Celebrities
Anil Karakurt Employer at civil aviation Volunteers
Berna Keklikler Model Volunteers Merged Tribe
Bulut Ozdemiroglu Unemployed Volunteers
Burcak Tuncer Architect Volunteers
Denisa Body Builder Volunteers
Elif Sadoglu Body Builder Volunteers
Erdi Unver Unemployed Volunteers
Eser West Unemployed Volunteers
Fulya Sahin Unemployed Volunteers
Gokhan Gozukan Unemployed Volunteers
Ogeday Girisken Oarsman Volunteers Merged Tribe
Sadin Bakir Wrestler Volunteers
Tugce Melis Demir Ice hokey player Volunteers
Volkan Cetinkaya Swimming and athleticism trainer Volunteers
Yigit Izik Model Volunteers

Voting History

TEAM MATCHES
Tribal Council Immunity Loser Tribe Individual Immunity Winner Nominated by Immune Nominated by Group Eliminated by SMS Voting
Week 1 1st Immunity Volunteers Volkan Cetinkaya Fulya Sahin Erdi Unver Fulya Sahin
2nd Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Eser West Berna Keklikler
Week 2 1st Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Sadin Bakir Denisa Seda Demir
2nd Immunity Celebrities Ilhan Mansiz Sabriye Sengul Seda Demir
Week 3 1st Immunity Volunteers Volkan Cetinkaya Erdi Unver Denisa Denisa
2nd Immunity Celebrities Sedat Kaburtu Adem Kilicci Sabriye Sengul
Week 4 1st Immunity Volunteers Tugce Melis Demir Sadin Bakir Yigit Izik
Erdi Unver
Yigit Izik
2nd Immunity Volunteers Eser West Elif Sadoglu Gokhan Gozukan
ESER WEST EVACUATED AND BULUT OZDEMIROGLU JOINED THE VOUNTEERS TRIBE
Week 5 1st Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci Sedat Kaburtu Sabriye Sengul Berna Ozturk
2nd Immunity Celebrities Furkan Kizilay Sahika Ercumen Berna Ozturk
Week 6 1st Immunity Celebrities Fatih Hurkan Sabriye Sengul Sadin Bakir
2nd Immunity Volunteers Gokhan Gozukan Erdi Unver Sadin Bakir
Week 7 1st Immunity Celebrities Sema Apak Adem Kilicci Sabriye Sengul Tarik Menguc
2nd Immunity Celebrities Ilhan Mansiz Sedat Kaburtu Tarik Menguc
Week 8 1st Immunity Celebrities Sedat Kaburtu Adem Kilicci Sahika Ercumen Fatih Hurkan
2nd Immunity Celebrities Ilhan Mansiz Pinar Saka Fatih Hurkan
Week 9 1st Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci Sedat Kaburtu Sahika Ercumen Sedat Kaburtu
2nd Immunity Celebrities Sabriye Sengul Furkan Kizilay Pinar Saka
Week 10 1st Immunity Volunteers Tugce Melis Demir Berna Keklikler Erdi Unver Bulut Ozdemiroglu
2nd Immunity Volunteers Volkan Cetinkaya Gokhan Gozukan Bulut Ozdemiroglu
Week 11 1st Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Berna Keklikler Erdi Unver Erdi Unver
2nd Immunity Celebrities Serhat Akin Adem Kilicci Sabriye Sengul
Week 12 REUNION PARTY
Week 13 1st Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Berna Keklikler
Gokhan Gozukan
Pinar Saka
2nd Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci
Sahika Ercumen
Sabriye Sengul
Pinar Saka
Week 14 1st Immunity Celebrities Furkan Kizilay Sahika Ercumen Sabriye Sengul Sahika Ercumen
2nd Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci Sema Apak
Week 15 1st Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Anil Karakurt Berna Keklikler Burcak Tuncer
2nd Immunity Volunteers Volkan Cetinkaya Gokhan Gozukan
Burcak Tuncer
Week 16 1st Immunity Volunteers Anil Karakurt Ogeday Girisken Tugce Melis Demir Tugce Melis Demir
2nd Immunity Volunteers Volkan Cetinkaya Berna Keklikler
Week 17 1st Immunity Volunteers Gokhan Gozukan Volkan Cetinkaya Berna Keklikler
Anil Karakurt
Anil Karakurt
2nd Immunity Volunteers Ogeday Girisken Elif Sadoglu
Week 18 1st Immunity Volunteers Berna Keklikler Volkan Cetinkaya Ogeday Girisken Volkan Cetinkaya
2nd Immunity Celebrities Sema Apak Ilhan Mansiz Adem Kilicci
Week 19 1st Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci Furkan Kizilay Sabriye Sengul Furkan Kizilay
2nd Immunity Celebrities Sema Apak Ilhan Mansiz
Week 20 1st Immunity Volunteers Berna Keklikler Elif Sadoglu Gokhan Gozukan Gokhan Gozukan
2nd Immunity Celebrities Sabriye Sengul Ilhan Mansiz Adem Kilicci
Week 21 1st Immunity Volunteers Berna Keklikler Elif Sadoglu Ogeday Girisken Elif Sadoglu
2nd Immunity Celebrities Adem Kilicci Ilhan Mansiz Sabriye Sengul
INDIVIDUAL MATCHES
Week 22 Ogeday Girisken Sabriye Sengul Berna Keklikler Berna Keklikler
Adem Kilicci Serhat Akin
Week 22 Sema Apak Sabriye Sengul
Adem Kilicci
Serhat Akin
Sabriye Sengul
Ogeday Girisken
Ilhan Mansiz
Week 22 Sema Apak Ogeday Girisken
Ilhan Mansiz
Ilhan Mansiz
Serhat Akin
Adem Kilicci
Quarter Final Ogeday Girisken Sema Apak
Adem Kilicci
Sema Apak
Serhat Akin
Semi final Ogeday Girisken
Serhat Akin
Adem Kilicci
Serhat Akin
Final Ogeday Girisken
Adem Kilicci
Adem Kilicci
OGEDAY GIRISKEN CHAMPION
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