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THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

Case Summary
About the Request for Acceptance of Citizenship Application Filed for Marrying a
Turkish Citizen

The applicant stated that he or she married a Palestinian person in 2004 and had
two children, 10 and 12 years old, from this marriage, that the Turkish citizenship
application made by his or her spouse in 2007 was refused on the grounds that it did
not meet the requirement for “national security and public order”, that finally, his or her
spouse filed a citizenship application to the Governorate of Kırklareli on 02/03/2017
within the scope of Article 16 of the Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 titled “The
Acquisition of Turkish Citizenship by Marriage” and that as the entire family, they were
treated unjustly because his or her spouse was not a Turkish citizen during their 15-year
marriage; for this reason, the applicant filed an application to our Institution with the
request for eliminating this unjust treatment that disrupted their family’s union and
granting Turkish citizenship to his or her spouse.
As a result of the evaluation of the allegations of the applicant, the information,
documents and explanations submitted to our Institution by the administration against
these allegations, the provisions of the relevant legislation and the judicial decisions
on this matter; it was seen that there was no compliance with the law and equity
in the action which was the subject of the refusal of the application for citizenship
of the applicant’s spouse on the grounds that it constituted an obstacle in terms of
national security and public order; according to the justification and the scope of the
file, a Recommendation was issued to the Ministry of Interior Directorate General of
Civil Registration and Citizenship for accepting the application and granting Turkish
Citizenship to the applicant’s spouse.

FORESTRY, WATER, ENVIRONMENT AND URBANISATION

The applications filed to our Institution in this field are usually relating to the following
subject matters: Practices of Housing Development Administration of Türkiye (TOKİ),
requests for entitlement within the scope of Article 2(B) of the Forest Law, requests for
demolition of risky buildings under the Law no. 6306, requests for housing benefits
under the Law no. 6306 and for taking buildings and neighbourhood into the scope of
the same law, applications on the administrations’ failure to compensate the applicants
for award of damages, requests for building control permits and their cancellations,
applications relating to apartment building management and site management,
applications relating to hunting, requests for permission for drilling a well, applications
related to the areas determined as site areas (protected areas), environmental and noise
pollution, applications relevant to membership fees to professional chambers, special
forest lands, problems suffered by survey and cadastre engineers, transactions relating
to land registry and cadaster.

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