Nationality law

According to data obtained from the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YBT), Turkish citizens registered in the foreign electoral roll will be able to vote at 123 overseas diplomatic representations on June 7-19 or at customs stations on June 7-24.

Austria has begun to cancel the dual citizenship of Turkey's settlers in the country, according to information in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

Authorities in Vienna check the status of everyone on the list of voters in the constitutional referendum in April last year. in Turkey, and in particular which ones have both Turkish and Austrian citizenship.

Some 2,000 Turkish Jews have applied for Portuguese citizenship after Portugal's government decided to grant nationality through naturalization to the descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal and Spain in the 15th century, Portuguese Ambassador to Ankara Paula Leal da Silva has said.

Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu welcomes the entry into force on May 1, 2018 of the directive on the coordination and cooperation measures to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries, according to a press statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) on Tuesday.

The Family and Social Policies Ministry on April 30 lifted the rule requiring a citizen to be at least 40 years old in order to be eligible to adopt a child.

Citizens of the European Union located in countries outside the Union will be able to turn to the Bulgarian embassy or consulate if they do not have representation in their own country. They will enjoy the same rights as Bulgarian citizens.
 

In 2016, the European Union has given citizenship to almost one million people, most of them Moroccans, followed by Albanians, Indians, Pakistanis and Turks, according to Eurostat data released on Monday. This pan-European trend, however, does not apply to Bulgaria, where nearly a third of the granted citizenships are given to Russians, Ukrainians and Turks.

The largest group of foreign nationals that obtained Greek citizenship in 2016 were Albanians (88 percent), followed by Ukrainians (1.5 percent) and Russians (1.2 percent), according to data from the European Union's statistics office Eurostat.

According to the same data, 33,210 foreigners became Greek citizens that year.

The head of the Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has called for considering the option to give Turkish citizenship to Syrian children born in Turkey. 

The US has filed a civil denaturalization complaint in Iowa against a 51-year-old from Bosnia, Eso Razic – who allegedly obtained US citizenship by fraud by failing to declare his former membership of paramilitary organisations.