Bangladesh moved onto the apostille route for Turkish documents in the spring of 2025 and began placing electronic apostilles the same year. The country list of e-Apostil, the official Turkish electronic apostille system, has not caught up: Bangladesh is not on it. This page is for a Bangladeshi employer or ministry receiving a Turkish document and for the Turkish office receiving a Bangladeshi one: why two official lists disagree, whether the twelve objections reach a Turkish file, how the electronic apostille from Dhaka is read, and which Turkish office places the paper apostille.
Two official lists that disagree about Bangladesh
The HCCH status table has a Bangladesh row: accession deposited on 29 July 2024, date shown 30 March 2025. The list of active countries in the Turkish e-Apostil system, read on 21 September 2026, did not contain Bangladesh. This site follows the HCCH, since the HCCH record is what determines whether the Convention applies between two states; the e-Apostil list is the option list of an application interface, and its update schedule is not published. The practical consequence: an applicant may find no Bangladesh entry when requesting an electronic apostille, and the official sources read for this site do not say what happens when the country is not listed; the question goes to the official system.
Twelve objecting states, none of them Türkiye
Lithuania, Argentina, Denmark, France, Greece, Estonia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Austria, Czechia and Germany objected to Bangladesh’s accession. Between those twelve states and Bangladesh the apostille does not run. Türkiye is not among them, and the HCCH record shows no act by Türkiye; a Turkish document goes to Bangladesh with an apostille and a Bangladeshi document comes to Türkiye with one. The list matters in three-country files handled from Türkiye: a document obtained in France and destined for Bangladesh cannot rely on a French apostille there, and which route applies instead is not stated in the sources read for this site.
Electronic apostilles from Dhaka since April 2025
According to the HCCH authority page, the authority in Bangladesh lies with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is exercised through its Director General for Consular and Welfare affairs; the page states no fee, and this site states none. The HCCH e-APP chart records electronic apostilles from Bangladesh since April 2025 and an online register queried by link. A Bangladeshi diploma or marriage certificate may therefore arrive in Türkiye as an electronic certificate, and the Turkish office or notary confirms it in the Bangladeshi register. Whether a Turkish institution wants the electronic certificate printed or as a file was not measured on this site.
Turkish documents for Bangladesh: governor’s office and judicial commission
A Turkish document bound for Bangladesh is apostilled by a Turkish authority. For an administrative document such as a diploma, a civil registry extract or a medical report, a provincial or district governor’s office is competent; the same offices apostille every notarial act, including a notarised translation or a power of attorney, and the former requirement to use the province where the notary sits was lifted in 2024. The Onikişubat office accepts documents issued in any of the 81 provinces, while Develi lists only its own district; the any-province rule of Notaries Law art. 199 covers notarial acts only, and a uniform practice for administrative documents was not verified. The original of a court judgment is apostilled by the adli yargı adalet komisyonu başkanlığı, the judicial commission at a high criminal court seat. An apostilled document is not taken to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and does not pass through the Bangladeshi mission. Bangladesh has not acceded to ETS 063, CIEC 16 or CIEC 17, so no multilingual form exemption exists for civil records.
A Bangladeshi apostille read in a Turkish office
A document issued in Bangladesh now reaches Türkiye with an apostille from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka; the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not legalise a document that already carries an apostille. The certificate is verified in the online register by link; the e-APP chart records no QR code for Bangladesh. Bangladesh is absent from the list of Members of the Hague Conference, which shows the membership question in reverse: a state can join the Convention without belonging to the organisation.
Bengali, English and the fee that stays unverified
A Bangladeshi document may be drawn up in Bengali or in English; the Turkish office sets the form of the Turkish translation it accepts, and the scope of that translation, the Dhaka certificate included or not, is for that office to fix. For a Turkish document going to Bangladesh, the language and the place of translation were not verified on this site and are stated by the receiving institution; a translation made in Türkiye is notarised and that notarial act receives its own apostille. Three points stay unverified: the fee of the Bangladeshi authority, the reason Bangladesh is missing from the e-Apostil country list, and the form in which a Turkish electronic apostille is accepted in Bangladesh. A translation office renders the text; it places no apostille.