Apostille interpretation can be defined briefly as the whole of the procedures for the acceptance of documents issued by foreign state authorities as valid by another state authority without being subject to a further approval process. This is a very simple process and consists of printing the phrase “Apostille” on the relevant document by the Competent Authority of the state issuing the document or signing it by affixing the label.

States shall, above all in their official business and transactions, rely on the documents to be issued by agencies established under their own laws. The official document issued by the Competent Authority of one state basically bears no adjectives or values for another state. However, an official document issued by the Competent Authority of one state may also be accepted as an official document by another state when certain conditions that we will disclose are met.

In this respect, the state of the Republic of Turkey accepts that the official document issued by the foreign state authorities will be accepted as a valid official document in Turkey only if it is approved by the diplomatic or consular officers in that place.

The Apostille interpretation provides for the elimination and simplification of the requirement to certify. In other words, if the official document issued by a foreign state authority carries the phrase Apostille commentary issued by the Competent Authority of the same foreign state, then there will be no need to certify.

Turkey signed on 08/05/1962 “the Convention on the removal of the obligation to certify foreign official documents, in terms of Turkey entered into force on 29/09/1985.

The convention removes the obligation of diplomatic or consular officers to approve official documents issued in the territory of one contracting state and to be presented in the territory of another contracting state. The states parties to the convention are at the end of our article.

The following documents, which are arranged in the territory of one of the contracting parties and which will be used in the territory of the other Contracting Party, are considered as official documents.;

a) documents issued by an authority or officer attached to a judicial body or Court of the state, including documents issued by the prosecutor, the clerk of the record or the clerk of the court,,

B-administrative documents,

C-notarized notes,

d-official declarations, such as the confirmation by the official authorities and notaries of the registration of the document or the accuracy of its signatures, are placed on documents signed by persons with special attributes.

The Turkish authorities authorized to issue Apostille for Turkey have been identified as governorships for administrative documents and as chairmen of the judicial judicial justice commission in the Centers which are the institutions of the Heavy Criminal Court for judicial documents.

The Apostille commentary shall be placed on the document or the paper attached to it by the competent authority in accordance with the sample attached to the convention. This may be written in the official language of the authority issuing the affirmation or in a second language.