Belarusian diplomas, birth records and marriage certificates can reach Turkish universities and registries, and Turkish civil extracts, powers of attorney and company papers can travel to Minsk. Both directions use the apostille, but the Belarus row in the HCCH table needs a careful reading: it is a succession entry, its two dates run in the wrong order at first sight, and the certificate on a Belarusian document may come from any of four authorities depending on what the document is. This page is for the Belarusian office receiving a Turkish document and the Turkish office receiving a Belarusian one.
Why the Belarus row shows an earlier date in its second column
The Belarus row carries the mark “Su”, which means Belarus joined by notifying its succession to the USSR rather than by depositing an accession. The table date is 16 June 1992, and the second date column shows 31 May 1992, sixteen days earlier. That is not a typing error: for a succession, the date in the second column runs back to the day of independence or separation. Between Türkiye and Belarus the HCCH record shows no objection, so the date that governs the pair is the succession date itself. How documents drawn up in the Soviet period before 1992 are treated today was not verified in this site’s survey.
Justice, Education, Archives, Foreign Affairs: reading a Belarusian certificate
The HCCH authority page, updated on 19 January 2022, divides the authority in Belarus four ways by document type. Court documents and notarial acts go to the Ministry of Justice and the regional justice administrations; educational documents to the Ministry of Education; documents from the state archives to the Department of Archives and Records Management; every remaining document to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A Turkish office receiving a Belarusian document can expect the signing authority to match the document type: an education ministry on a diploma, a justice administration on a notarised power of attorney. The page states no fee, and the data record marks that gap as unverified; no amount is printed here.
A Belarusian diploma with an Education Ministry apostille
A Belarusian diploma with its transcript carries a certificate from the Ministry of Education, one of the four authorities Belarus notified under article 6. The same applicant’s birth record may carry a certificate from a different authority, so a single Belarusian file can show two different signing authorities, each matching its own document type in the HCCH list. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not legalise a Belarusian document that already carries an apostille.
Consular papers from Belarus without the 1968 shortcut
Belarus has not acceded to the 1968 European Convention on the abolition of legalisation for documents executed by diplomatic agents or consular officers, ETS 063; its name is not among the twenty-eight states in the Council of Europe table. The practical effect shows on consular documents: a paper drawn up at the Belarusian mission in Türkiye enjoys no ETS 063 exemption before a Turkish authority. The Apostille Convention itself keeps diplomatic and consular documents outside its scope in article 1, so which route such a paper takes is asked of the receiving Turkish institution and was not verified here. Belarus has not acceded to CIEC 16 or CIEC 17 either, so a Turkish multilingual civil status form bound for Minsk carries no form exemption.
Kosovo, no e-APP row and no register address for Belarus
The full status report names Belarus among the states that objected to Kosovo’s accession, so the apostille does not run between Belarus and Kosovo. A Turkish document is unaffected; the objection works only in a three-country file where a Kosovar document travels to Belarus or a Belarusian one to Kosovo. The e-APP chart of 13 August 2026 has no Belarus row: neither an electronic certificate nor an online register has been reported. This site gives no Belarusian verification address, since none is on record.
Russian and Belarusian translations and the unknown Belarusian fee
Belarusian documents may be drawn up in Russian or in Belarusian, and a Turkish office asks for a notarised Turkish translation in either case, made after the certificate is placed; that office, not a general rule, determines whether the Minsk certificate itself goes into Turkish. Which language a Belarusian institution wants on a Turkish document was not verified here. A translation made in Türkiye is notarised, and the notarial act receives its own apostille from the valilik or kaymakamlık, the provincial or district governor’s office; the original of a court judgment is apostilled by the adli yargı adalet komisyonu başkanlığı, the judicial commission at a high criminal court seat. For the six document types handled by e-Apostil, the official Turkish electronic apostille system, an electronic certificate exists; how a Belarusian authority receives it was not verified. Two further unknowns are the fee of the Belarusian authorities and the treatment of Soviet-era documents. A translation office renders the text; the choice of authority and the acceptance decision belong to the Belarusian side.