MasterChef Turkey

MasterChef Turkey
Also known as	MasterChef Türkiye
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	Turkish
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	13 (Season 1/2011) 33 (Season 2/2018) 79 (Season 3/2019) 134 (Season 4/2020) 158 (Season 5/2021) 179 (Season 6/2022) 203 (Season 7/2023) 204 (Season 8/2024) 174 (Season 9/2025)
Production
Producer	Uygar Ataş[1]
Production location	Istanbul
Production company	Bloom Medya[1]
Original release
Network	Show TV
Release	14 March (2011-03-14) – 10 June 2011 (2011-06-10)
Network	TV8
Release	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.^[2] 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.

• Anyan Değirmenci
• Burçe Gür
• Emre Oruç
• Fatih Kavanoz
• Ferhat Bora (runner-up)
• Gökçe Demiröz
• Gözde Sayılgan
• Gülçin Payzın
• Hasan Fehmi Koçman
• Hüseyin Elgün
• Melis Aran
• Mine Taşer
• Murat Kolukırık
• Mustafa İhsan Çelikşan
• Muzaffer Şenduran (Winner) ^[3]
• Nergis Bilek
• Neriman Büyükengin
• Semra Kurtuluş
• Sena Abay
• Tuğsan Tezil
• Uzay Akçasaray
• Yeşim Fırat

This season is the first MasterChef season directed by Acun Ilıcalı, and unlike the first season, it is a much more modernized and detailed season.

Since it was broadcast on a completely different channel 7 years after the first season and has brand new staff and judges, this season is thought to be the first season.

Compared with its successors this season, it does not have a published its pre-qualifying process.

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

As of this season, Danilo Zanna has replaced Hazer Amani in the jury cast.

This season, compared to the previous two seasons, is the first season in which the pre-selection process of this competition has been broadcast.

Contestants will first go through an audition stage where the judges will cook within a certain period of time before the eyes of the judges, and the contestant who gets approval from at least two judges will move on to the next stage. In the next stage, they will go through the triple duel stage in order to enter the main cast, the person who cooks the best food in that stage will pass to the main cast, while the others will be eliminated.

However, unlike previous seasons, it has a 'reserve cast' system in which some of the eliminated in the triple duel were recalled for the replacing main cast contestants who were eliminated.

• Açelya Kılıçay
• Alican Sabunsoy (runner-up)
• Bahri Papila
• Batuhan Bayır
• 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

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.

• 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

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 )

• 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
• Sergen Özen
• Mustafa Ozan
• Azize Polat
• Mert Ateş Durukan
• Araz Aknam
• Pelin Zaman
• Rabia Nur Çamurlu

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.

Since the number of main cast contestants for this season has been increased to 18, the number of reserve contestants to be recruited this season has been reduced to 5. That's why it is the first season in which the number of reserve contestants is reduced.

• Metin Yavuz (Winner)
• 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 (fifth place)
• Dilan Karataş
• Barış Demir
• Kıvanç Karadeniz (runner-up)
• Ayaz Geçer (third place)
• Serpilay Salkım
• Tolga Şener
• Vural Burnaz
• Atike Bozyaka
• Görkem Ünal (fourth place)
• Şule Yaman

Although the elimination system runs parallel to the 5th and 6th seasons, it differs from its predecessors by including runner-ups and champions from the reserves in the competition.

Contestants who cannot become finalists are categorized according to the seasons they are in and divided into 4 batches and competed each other to enter 5 person-quota each:

•1'st Batch: Season 2 (2018) and Season 3 (2019)

This batch is consisted of only 12. Due to their small number, they selected only 3 people for the reserve candidates, apart from those who entered the 5-person main squad quota.

•2'nd Batch: Season 4 (2020)

This batch is consisted of 14. Just like in the first batch, only 3 reserve candidates were selected from this group. It also differs from other seasons in that this season's champion is not included in the squad.

•3'rd Batch: Season 5 (2021)

This batch is consisted of 20. It differs from other seasons in that everyone in this season participates in the preliminary round.

Since they are more numerous, they increased the number of reserve candidates to 4.

•4'th Batch: Season 6 (2022)

This batch is consisted of 17. Since it is the most current season before the All Star season, they increased the number of reserve candidates to 5.

They start the competition by selecting only 2 people from the reserve candidates along with the 20 people selected for the main squad. The runner-ups of their current season are included in the squad week by week, immediately after the two selected reserve contestants.

After all runner ups arrive and the number of remaining contestants is reduced to 16, 4 champions are added to the squad at the same time, thus completing the squad.

Captains duel has been added when remaining contestant count is reduced into 16.

Unlike previous seasons, since the Survivor 2024 All Star season was postponed 1 month early, individual games were started when there were 7 contestants instead of 5.

In this season, the 3 team game-6 elimination candidate system, which was implemented in the last 3 seasons, continues as it is. However, the captain duel system and masterclass sections have been completely removed. Instead, the award game, which was played in the 6th season and counted as the 4th team game, and an individual game in which the 7th elimination candidate was determined were added.

When there were 11 contestants remaining, they reduced the number of elimination candidates to 4, and the number of elimination candidates per team game was reduced to 1. The elimination was evaluated based on the points the contestants received from both creativity and chef plates.

When there were only 7 contestants left, the competition turned completely individual. A 5-day voting game was played for the chef jacket to be given to one person each day. While the chef with the highest score won the jacket, the 2 contestants who could not get the chef jacket at the end of 5 days were eliminated.

The 5 contestants who managed to get the chef's jacket were asked to prepare an entree, a main course and a dessert of a certain concept every day, and the contestant with the lowest score at the end of the day was eliminated.

On the final day, a little different from the previous final games, they were first asked to prepare a menu with a Turkish Cuisine concept, then a menu with an International Cuisine concept, and finally, the contestants were asked to make a signature plate in the game where the champion was determined live. The contestant with the highest total score on the final day became the champion.

• Alican Sabunsoy
• Ayaz Geçer
• Azize Polat
• Barbaros Yoloğlu (fourth place)
• Barış Demir
• Batuhan Bayır
• Berker Başmanav
• Burcu Önal
• Büşra Zambak
• Çağatay Akgül
• Cemre Uyanık
• Dilara Başaran (sixth place)
• Eda Karabulut
• Eray Aksungur
• Eren Kaşıkçı
• Esra Tokelli (Winner)
• Gamze Tosun
• Güzide Mertcan
• Hasan Biltekin (third place)
• Kerem Giritlioğlu
• Kıvanç Karadeniz
• Mert Yılmaz
• Metin Yavuz
• Rıfat Yurttaş
• Sefa Okyay Kılıç
• Sergen Özen (fifth place)
• Suna Aydın
• Tahsin Küçük (runner-up)
• Tanya Kilitkayalı
• Tolga Şener
• Uğur Kardaş

This season's system is similar to that of season 7. The contestants who made it to the final round competed in 4 groups of 12 candidates and competed to be placed in the main cast quota of 5 people each.

However, unlike the previous final rounds, instead of the entire first rounds being a recipe competition, they started with one day of recipe (on odd-numbered days) and one day of creativity (on even-numbered days).

The contestants who could not make it to the main cast played a 2-round game to get into the reserve round, where 3-4 people would be taken from each group.

In the reserve round, unlike Season 7 did, they selected 5 people for the only instead of 2.

The elimination system in the main competition is the same as that of season 7.

• Zeynep Gültepe
• Hakan Dündar
• Onur Üresin (Winner)
• Ümmühan Ünavcı
• Deniz Yılmaz
• Çağlar Azır
• Serhat Gül
• Alper Öztamur ( eight place)
• Ayşe Ekiz
• Beril Yavuz
• Semih Temiz (third place)
• Eda Çağlayan (fourth place)
• Muratcan Sunal
• Ezgi Yıldırım
• Nigar Akyıldız
• Beyza Aydın (fifth place)
• Emre Ün
• Kaan Özdemir
• Kerem Bilginer (runner-up)
• Nevzat Gürol

• Zübeyde Yaslak
• Şirin Sadegzade (seventh place)
• Akin Kiziltaş
• Yudum Kıvançkaya
• Erim Şanal (sixth place)
• Bera Altaş

First half of this season is progressing exact same as Season 8.

This season has the second largest cast with 28 contestants (20 main, 8 reserves).

Due to low ratings, elimination system is sped up into 2 elimination per week in latter half of this season.

Final week begins with a game in which half of the remaining 8 contestants will wear the chef jacket and the remaining half will be eliminated collectively as quarter-finalists.

Then the same system continues with a game where half of the 4 contestants wearing chef jackets become finalists and the other half are eliminated as semi-finalists.

• Furkan Kahraman
• Eylül Azra Soysal
• Çağatay Doğanoğlu (third place)
• Onur Dikbaş
• Hilal Ağca
• Sercan Şahinoğlu
• Ayla Canpunar
• İhsan Yiğit Uçak
• Ayten Saner
• Çağlar Öz
• Sezer Dirican (Winner)
• Cansu Irmak Aydar
• Özkan Akan (runner-up)
• Gizem Tokat Budakçı (Quarter finalist)
• İrem Tuğrul
• Hakan Altunbaş (fourth place)
• Tunahan Onhan
• Sümeyye Şahin (Quarter finalist)
• Merve Gezgin
• İlhan Buğra Karabulut
• Mert Çamlıbel (Quarter finalist)
• Bilal Salman
• Barış Kaya (Quarter finalist)
• Nisa Nur Demirel
• Muratcan Akpınar
• Meryem Sevinç
• Aslı Öner
• Deniz Demiröz

This season is serving as mini filler season in between MasterChef Turkey Season 9 and Survivor Turkey Season 20.

In the first two weeks, five team challenges are played, and at the end of the day, the person from the losing team who wins immunity directly nominates a candidate for elimination. This also applies to the elimination candidate, but their nomination is not dropped.

The elimination round consists of two stages. In each round, there will be one contestant eliminated.

In the third week, two-stage challenge are played each day to determine the quarter-finalists who will receive the golden apron. The winner of the day becomes a quarter-finalist, and those who do not make it into the 8-person quarter-final quota by the end of the week are eliminated.

In the first half of the final week, the quarter-finalists play a two-round game to win one of four chef jackets. The winner of the day becomes a semi-finalist, while those who don't win a jacket by the end of the four days are all eliminated.

• Alican Sabunsoy
• Ayaz Geçer
• Barbaros Yoloğlu
• Barış Demir
• Batuhan Bayır
• Beyza Aydın
• Çağatay Doğanoğlu (third place)
• Dilara Başaran
• Eda Çağlayan
• Eren Kaşıkçı
• Erim Şanal
• Hasan Biltekin (runner-up)
• Hakan Altunbaş
• Kerem Bilginer
• Kıvanç Karadeniz (fourth place)
• Özkan Akan
• Semih Temiz
• Sergen Özen (Winner)
• Sezer Dirican
• Tolga Şener

Season	Time	Premiere date	Finale date	Episodes	Contestants	Year	TV channel
Season 1	Every week at 20:00	14 March 2011	10 June 2011	13	22	2011	Show TV
Season 2	Every week at 20:00	1 September 2018	23 December 2018	33	18	2018	TV8
Season 3	3 Days a Week at 20:00	18 August 2019	30 December 2019	79	20	2019
Season 4	5 Days a Week at 20:00	17 July 2020	3 January 2021	134	22	2020
Season 5	5 Days a Week at 20:00	26 June 2021	14 January 2022	158		2021
Season 6	Every Day at 20:00	1 July 2022	10 January 2023	179	23	2022
Season 7 (All Star)		14 June 2023	7 January 2024	203	31	2023
Season 8		14 June 2024	11 January 2025	204	26	2024
Season 9		14 June 2025	6 December 2025	174	28	2025
Season 10 (All Star Gold Cup)		7 December 2025	18 January 2026	30	20	2026

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