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Certified Turkish Legal Separation Translation
Certified translation of the documents that record a legal separation in Turkey, including the registry annotations and endorsements that carry the legal effect and that a reader unfamiliar with the system will otherwise skip.
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A Turkish court can order separation instead of divorce
Under the Turkish Civil Code a court hearing a divorce case may, where it considers reconciliation possible, order ayrılık — separation — for a period of one to three years instead of granting the divorce. The petitioner asked for a divorce and received a separation.
That is a genuinely unusual power and it produces a decree that looks like a divorce judgment and is not one. If the period elapses without reconciliation, either spouse may then seek divorce. We translate the operative order exactly, including the period set.
The MERNİS record is where status lives
Turkish marital status is recorded centrally in MERNİS, and the nüfus kayıt örneği — the population registry record — states the current status and the events that produced it, with dates.
That record is better evidence than the decree alone, because it shows the registry gave effect to the judgment. An office asking whether someone is married should be sent the registry record, and it is frequently forgotten.
The finality stamp
A Turkish judgment is not effective until it is final, and finality is shown by a kesinleşme şerhi — a finality annotation — stamped on the decree by the court. A decree without it proves a decision was made and not that it stands.
This is the commonest defect in a Turkish family-law packet sent abroad. Check for the stamp before ordering, and we translate it with the decree.
Foreign judgments have to be recognised
A divorce or separation obtained outside Turkey does not change a Turkish registry record by itself — it has to be recognised, historically by a Turkish court and since 2018 in defined cases by application to the registry directorate.
So a Turkish citizen divorced in the United States may still show as married on their nüfus record, which is not a contradiction and not fraud. We translate both documents and let the reader see the sequence. See our Turkish marriage certificate page.
Ordering, and what the certification covers
Upload the document, choose certified translation at $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, and it comes back typically within 24 hours as a PDF formatted to mirror the original, with a signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead. Marginal annotations are translated in place, in the margin, and every seal, stamp and registry endorsement is translated with the text. See how we translate and certified versus standard.
Frequently asked questions
My client asked for a divorce and got a separation.
Turkish courts may order ayrılık for one to three years where reconciliation seems possible. The decree is real and it is not a divorce.
Which document proves current status?
The nüfus kayıt örneği from the population registry. It shows the status and the events that produced it.
My decree has no stamp.
Then it is not final. The kesinleşme şerhi is what makes a Turkish judgment effective, and its absence is the commonest defect.
My US divorce is not on the Turkish record.
A foreign judgment has to be recognised in Turkey before the registry reflects it. Not a contradiction.
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