Eurovision 2010: Tarkan in the Eurovision jungle?

It's another nine months before Contesty things get going in Oslo, but the Turkish media was in a bit of a tizz last week over the news its biggest international star may have signed on the dotted line for National Eurovision Duty next year.

Tarkan (pictured, left) will be best known to UK readers as the man behind the original version of Kiss Kiss, which Holly Valance had a yooge hit with in 2002.

In his homeland, pop stars don't come any bigger and such is his stardom on t'other end of the Continent, if the reports are true, a top five Turkish finish is practically guaranteed in Oslo.

But nothing has been confirmed yet. Tarkan's manager, Ulgar Atash, has strongly denied the reports.

One official statement read: "The reports that Tarkan will represent Turkey in Eurovision 2010 are not true... TRT (Turkish telly) has not offered it to Tarkan this year. Tarkan received proposals on participation in the Contest in previous years, but he rejected them. If we receive such a proposal this year, we will reject. Tarkan is not going to participate in this Contest in the coming years."

That does sound rather final. However, Turkey's representative last year, Hadise, made similar official rumblings before her participation was publicly announced.