MasterChef Turkey facts for kids

Quick facts for kids MasterChef Turkey
Genre	Cookery
Created by	Franc Roddam
Presented by	Öykü Serter (2011)
Judges	Murat Bozok (2011) Batuhan Piatti (2011) Erol Kaynar (2011) Mehmet Yalçınkaya (2018–) Hazer Amani (2018) Somer Sivrioğlu (2018–) Danilo Zanna (2019–)
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	13 (Season 1/2011) 33 (Season 2/2018) 79 (Season 3/2019) 134 (Season 4/2020) 158 (Season 5/2021) TBA (Season 6/2022)
Production
Producer(s)	Uygar Ataş
Production location(s)	Istanbul
Production company(s)	Bloom Medya
Release
Original network	Show TV (2011) TV8 (2018–)
Picture format	4:3 (2011) 16:9
Original release	2011 (2011) 1 September 2018 (2018-09-01) – present

MasterChef Turkey (MasterChef Türkiye) is a Turkish competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. Its first season was broadcast on Show TV, but since 2018 it has been screened on TV8. Chefs Murat Bozok, Batuhan Piatti and Erol Kaynar served as the first season's judges, which was presented by Öykü Serter. For the show's second season in 2018, Mehmet Yalçınkaya, Hazer Amani and Somer Sivrioğlu joined the program as the new judges. Amani was replaced by Danilo Zanna in 2019. Two different groups, Blue and Red, compete to win the main title.

Contestants

Season 1 (2011)

Contestants

Season 2 (2018)

• Atakan Erbek
• Burcu Eminoğlu (Third place)
• Doruk Ulufer
• Ercan Demir
• Eslem Sena Yurt
• Esra Maydoğdu
• Ezgi Gürkaş
• Hakan Kanik (Fifth place)
• Kerem Giritlioğlu (Runner-up)
• Mehmet Sur
• Mehmet Alp Sıy
• Meltem Pisboğa (Fourth place)
• Murat Özdemir (Disqualified/Ninth place)
• Özlem Yüksektepe
• Tuğçe Sökesoğlu
• Uğur Kardaş (Winner)
• Umut Yeke
• Zeynep Palikoç

Season 3 (2019)

• Açelya Kılıçay
• Alican Sabunsoy (Runner-up)
• Bahri Papila
• Batuhan Bayır (Fifth place)
• Cemre Uyanık (Winner)
• Eda Karabulut
• Güzide Mertcan (Third place)
• Ekin Eylem Ulaş (Fourth place)
• Faruk Batuhan Öner
• Kıvanç Ermiş
• Murat Tokmak
• Mustafa Aydın
• Müge Güney
• Onur Dursun
• Orhan Eren
• Rıfat Yurttaş
• Nalan Toprak
• Suna Aydın
• Yasin Obuz
• Yekaterina Sungur

Season 4 (2020)

System in the Season 4

This season, unlike the previous season, the third qualifying stage called the 'final round' was introduced.

At this stage, the 28 winners of the triple duel were divided into two groups and 8 people were determined for the main squad from each group.

Successful contestants who failed to enter the main cast were included in the competition as reserve cast contestants. These contestants are: Sefa, Berker, Arem, Selin, Walison and Didem.

Contestants

• Arem Yüce
• Ayyüce Kamit
• Barbaros Yoloğlu (Runner-up)
• Berk İlter
• Berker Başmanav
• Celal Sarıgül
• Didem Devay
• Duygu Acarsoy
• Ebru Has
• Emir Elidemir (Third place)
• Eray Aksungur (Fifth place)
• Esra Tokelli
• Gülşah Suna
• Furkan Yalçın
• Özgül Coşar (Fourth place)
• Sedat Tuncer
• Sefa Okyay Kılıç
• Selin Öztürk Aydın
• Serhat Doğramacı (Winner)
• Tanya Kilitkayalı
• Uğur Yılmaz Deniz (Disqualified/Eighth place)
• Walison Fonseca

Season 5 (2021)

System in Season 5

Along with a chosen contestant by juries whose eliminated in the triple duel stage, 5 main cast contestants and 5 reserve cast contestants are selected from each group of 15 people. Thus, the number of main cast and reserve cast contestants will be completed to 15.

The selected reserve cast contestants have to compete against each other each week to replace an eliminated contestant from the main cast.(in the first match, for to be the last contestant of the main cast)

The selection of the reserve cast is made before the qualifying day, but in terms of the rules it is the same as the final round stage. In the last two reserve selections, the second stage, the creativity stage, is removed. Instead, the person who cooks the food requested by the chefs best is included in the main cast.

In addition, the 'loop round, in which the eliminated contestants are brought back, was introduced this season. Two of the contestants eliminated before they reach the last ten in this round have a chance to be reintegrated into the main cast, thus reshaping the second turning point, the last twelve.

This season is the season where the elimination system is changed the most, and it is also the MasterChef season with the most reserve contestants called up. (13 reserve calling in total; 3 for final round, 7 for main cast, 2 for main cast in mid-to-end season )

Main Cast

• Fatma Polat
• Milhan Erdem
• Dilara Başaran (Fifth Place)
• İbrahim Cingözler
• Tunahan Ak
• Sükrü Özsarı
• Hamza Mercimek
• Burcu Önal (Sixth Place)
• Görkem Demiral
• Hasan Biltekin (Runner-up)
• Tahsin Küçük (Third Place)
• Eren Kaşıkçı (Winner)
• Mert Yılmaz
• Safanur Bol
• Emre Büber

Reserve Cast

• Nursima Toğaç
• Berk Vural Urun
• Mert Ateş Durukan

(Participated as 3'rd Reserve Contestant)

• Sergen Özen

(Participated as 16'th Contestant/Fourth Place)

• Mete Ozan Kibar
• Azize Polat

(Participated as 2'nd Reserve Contestant)

• Araz Aknam

(Participated as 4'th Reserve Contestant)

• Samet Enes
• Merve Karagül
• Zerda Karagülle
• Mustafa Ozan

(Participated as 1'st Reserve Contestant)

• Melis Di Gennaro
• Pelin Zaman

(Participated as 5'th Reserve Contestant)

• Yiğit Gök
• Rabia Nur Çamurlu

(Participated as 6'th Reserve Contestant)

Season 6 (2022)

System in Season 6

Slightly different from the previous season, they did not call a reserve contestants for the final round. Instead, they choose 6 contestant from each batch of 16 contestants for the main cast, then they choose 5 contestants from each batch of remaining 10 contestants for the reserve cast. Complete the number of main cast contestants to 18, reserve cast contestants to 15.

It is the second season that increased the number of contestants required for the main cast after the fourth season. But in the other hand, this is the first season to decrease number of the reserve contestant.

Main Cast

• Metin Yavuz
• Gamze Tosun
• Onur Biçim
• Çağatay Akgül
• Şeyma Müjdeci
• Melih Berkay Gündüz
• Büsra Zambak
• Fatma Nur Uçar
• Tayfun Genç
• Yağız Özçelik
• Burak Revanbahş
• Kaan Noyanalpan
• Burak Kaya
• Dilan Karataş
• Barış Demir
• Kıvanç Karadeniz
• Ayaz Geçer
• Serpilay Salkım

Reserve Cast

• Doğukan Güneş
• Atike Bozyaka

(Participated as 3'rd Reserve Contestant)

• Başar Varol
• Tolga Şener

(Participated as 4'th Reserve Contestant)

• Seyfullah Karagöz

(Withdrew)

• Ege Pakalın
• Vural Burnaz

(Participated as 2'nd Reserve Contestant)

• Erkan Kalanyer
• Ayşegül Zengin
• Şule Yaman

(Participated as 5'th Reserve Contestant)

• Makbule Cengiz
• Görkem Ünal

(Participated as 1'st Reserve Contestant)

• Sema Fıçıcı
• Göktuğ Çolak
• Cenkay Ceviz

Series overview