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Is the Record of a Foreign Child Born in Turkey Citizenship?

Author · Av. Ayşenur Konar, Avukat

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The record of a foreign child born in Turkey is not citizenship by itself. The place that is read is the citizenship box on the civil-register line. Writing Turkey in the place-of-birth box does not fill this box on its own. This writing does not copy the ground of a refusal of a citizenship application. A refusal is a separate notification of a request that was made.

The birth minute and the citizenship box

The document the hospital gave is the paper about where the birth was. If the child's name, the mother's and father's names, the place of birth, and a record number stand in the document, these lines show the first paper on which the birth was entered. The line at the civil-registry directorate is the record in which the child's identity, and the tie to the mother and the father, was passed onto the register. The citizenship box is a separate cell inside this line. If the cell is empty, if a foreign state's citizenship is written, or if the word foreigner stands there, the place-of-birth sentence is not an announcement of Turkish citizenship. The seal on the hospital paper does not open the civil-register box by itself.

The statute ties acquisition by birth to parentage, and to the further case it looks for. The basis is the text of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901. A case such as no state citizenship being acquirable through the mother or the father is read only if it appears in the child's box, or in the administration's writing that fills the box. While there is no box and no writing, the birth minute does not treat the case as having occurred. This text does not add a day, a year, or a document tariff to that case. A guess is not written in place of a missing box. The country name on the hospital document is not copied into the citizenship box.

If there is a minute about the birth having been at home, on the road, or outside a hospital, the minute is also a paper that shows the place of birth. The minute does not take the place of the civil-register line. If there is no citizenship sentence in the minute, a sentence is not added. The birth report the municipality or the hospital gave, and the record extract the civil-registry directorate gave, are placed side by side. If one has a name and the other has a different spelling, the difference of spelling is not closed. The difference does not mean the box was filled.

The mother's and father's line is not the child's box

The mother's or the father's citizenship line is not a copy of the child's box. One parent appearing as a Turkish citizen does not build a result before the child's box is looked at. Both parents appearing as foreigners does not give birth to a sentence that the child carries no status, before the box is read. The result to be said is on the child's own line. If the line and the parent's record conflict, the conflict is read by separating which box belongs to whom. A sentence built without that separation does not join two persons in a single status.

The father or the mother later becoming a citizen does not change the child's old box by itself. The change is read if it appears in the child's box, or in the writing that changes the box. If there is no writing, the parent's new identity card is not stuck onto the child's box. If there is a court or administration writing in which the child's parentage with one parent was established, that writing relates to parentage. The citizenship box is looked for separately. If the parentage writing does not say it filled the box, a result of filling is not built.

The parents' marriage line is not the child's birth record either. Entering the marriage on the register is in the writing on the civil-register record of a marriage with a foreigner. Whether a marriage celebrated abroad is counted as valid in Turkey stands under a marriage abroad. A valid marriage record does not fill the child's citizenship box by itself. If the marriage line is empty, the birth box is not produced from that emptiness either. Establishing parentage separately in a birth outside marriage is not a procedure described on this page. If a writing has been established, the writing is read. If it has not, parentage is not assumed.

No state citizenship being acquirable

The place of birth being Turkey is not read as a path of citizenship on its own. The separate case the statute looks for is the child being unable to acquire any state citizenship through the mother or the father. That case is read only if it appears in the writing in the file. If a state name is written in the parent's passport, that name does not pass onto the child's box by itself as citizenship. The passport belongs to the parent. If the child has no document of their own, the parent's document does not declare the child's status.

A document is not invented so that the case will be counted as having occurred. A consular writing, an apostille, or a translation is read from its own sentence if it stands in the file. If the sentence does not say the child acquired no citizenship, this text does not complete that sentence. If the sentence does say it, the paper that says it does not take the place of the civil-register box either. The box is looked for separately in the directorate's record. If the two papers conflict, the conflict is read by separating which authority wrote what. The conflict is not turned into a declaration of citizenship from this page.

A refusal letter is not stuck onto the birth line

Refusal of a citizenship application is the notification that that request was not accepted. A birth minute is not an application form, and a refusal letter does not take the place of the birth box either. The ground of the refusal, the amount, and the period stay in the text on refusal of a citizenship application. This page does not rewrite that ground. Whether the birth box is full or empty, the refusal letter does not erase the box. The refusal letter does not fill an empty box either.

If an application was later made in the child's name, the result of that application is read from its own notification. While there is no notification, the birth line is not completed as a refusal or an acceptance. A short status sentence on a screen is not read as if a refusal existed if it is not the refusal letter that was served. If there is no service annotation, a period is not started from here either. If the application was made in the mother's or the father's name, that application is not the child's application. If the child's name appears in an annex, that appearance does not create a decision belonging to the child. If the decision was served in the child's name, the service is in its own annotation.

A blue card and a return action are not a birth record

A blue card is not a citizenship identity card. The frame of the card is in the writing on the blue card. Producing the card does not fill the empty citizenship box of a child born in Turkey. If the card belongs to the parent, the parent's status does not pass to the child by itself. If a card was issued in the child's name, the card is still not a copy of the civil-register box. If the name on the card and the name in the box conflict, the conflict is not closed.

International return of a child is the return action of the parent who was left behind, and it stands under international return of a child. The return petition does not turn the birth box into a citizenship decision. This text does not write a change of the child's place. An address in the return file is not written as the place of birth in the civil-register box. A custody or contact decision is not a citizenship box either. If the decision says with whom the child will stay, it says that much. If there is no citizenship sentence, a sentence is not added.

A foreign mission's record is not the civil-register box

The child's birth may also have been entered at the mission of the mother's or the father's country. That record does not take the place of the Turkish civil-register line. If a state citizenship is written in the mission's document, the writing is that document's sentence. The sentence does not fill, or erase, the Turkish civil-register box by itself. The two records are placed side by side. One is not completed with the other's seal. If the translation of the mission's document is not in the file, the meaning is not guessed.

Notification to the mission does not mean the hospital paper was entered on the civil register either. If a civil-register extract is asked for, the extract is read from the directorate's record. If the citizenship box is empty in the extract, the gap is not filled from the mission's document. The frame is on the international law page. The contact page is open for reading the box in hand together. A status is not declared before the line is seen.

If the date of the record from which the extract was taken and the date of the hospital document differ, each date is on its own paper. If the mother or father box is empty in the extract, the gap is not filled from the hospital paper and a citizenship result is not built. If the child's name was later changed, the change is read if it appears in the writing that changes the box. If it does not appear, the old name and the new name are not joined from this text. If an identity number is not in the extract, a number is not added. If there is a number, the number does not take the place of the citizenship box. A record whose box appears foreign is not declared a citizen from the place of birth.

The parent's residence card does not open the child's birth box. The end of the card is not the end of the child's record. If the child has a residence document of their own, that document is read from its own line. While there is no document, the birth minute is not counted as a residence permit. A school record, a vaccination card, or a hospital file is not a copy of the civil-register box either. These papers can carry a trace that the child was born in Turkey. The writing that fills the citizenship box is the civil-register extract. A status is not built before the extract is seen.

Conclusion

A birth record is not citizenship by itself. The citizenship box on the civil-register line is read. The mother's and father's line, a refusal letter, a blue card, and a mission's record are not put in place of this box. If the case of no state citizenship having been acquired does not appear in the file, it is not built from this text.

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Frequently asked questions

Does a child become a Turkish citizen because the child was born in Turkey?

Writing Turkey as the place of birth does not fill the citizenship box by itself. The status is read from the citizenship box on the civil-register line. If the box is empty, the place of birth does not declare a status on its own.

If the mother or the father is a Turkish citizen, is the birth paper enough?

The parent's own line is not a copy of the child's box. What is written in the child's box is looked at. A result of parentage is not built before the box is seen.

Is a hospital birth certificate a civil-register record?

The hospital document is the paper about the birth having taken place. The civil-register line is the box in the directorate's record. The two are not counted as the same transaction. The document does not fill an empty box by itself.

Does a citizenship refusal letter take the place of this record?

No. A refusal notifies that an application that was made was not accepted. A birth record is not a refusal letter. The ground of the refusal is not opened in this text.

Does an international child-return case close the birth box?

No. Return is a separate action the parent who was left behind brought. The return petition does not change the child's citizenship box by itself.

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Av. Ayşenur Konar

Lawyer on the Ankara Bar Association roll, founder of Konar Hukuk. This text is general information; a specific file is reviewed separately. Author profile · Editorial policy

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