Burundi’s accession met objections from four European states; Türkiye is not among them. This page is for Burundian institutions receiving Turkish documents and for people in Türkiye with Burundian papers. It explains what the A** marker means in Burundi’s row, how the objections show up in a Turkish file only through third-country documents, the single director general who certifies, an authority page unchanged since 2015 and the place of translation.
A** and four European objections in the Burundi row
Burundi deposited its instrument of accession on 10 June 2014; the HCCH table shows 13 February 2015 and the row carries A**. According to the HCCH notifications page, Austria, Germany, Czechia and Poland objected to the accession. The record read for this site shows no withdrawal of any of the four. Türkiye did not object; the full status report shows no exception between Türkiye and Burundi, and their relationship starts on Burundi’s own date. Burundi has objected to no other state’s accession. It is not among the Members of the Hague Conference, a list kept separately from the Convention table.
An Austrian, German, Czech or Polish document in Burundi
The objections do not touch Turkish documents. Their effect appears when someone living in Türkiye has to use a document from one of the four objecting states in Burundi. Under article 12, second paragraph, an accession has effect only with states that did not object; the apostille on a German or Polish document therefore does not work as a Convention certificate before a Burundian authority, and a Burundian document does not travel to those four countries with an apostille either. Which authentication route applies in those files lies outside this site and was not researched. The standing of a Turkish document in Burundi is shown in the box above; the four objections do not alter it.
One office in Bujumbura: protocol, consular and juridical affairs
According to the HCCH authority page, the certifying power in Burundi lies with the Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation and, within it, with a single office holder: the Director General of Protocol and of Consular and Juridical Affairs, based in Bujumbura. The record ties the power to that title rather than to a unit. No second authority by document type and no office in another city appear. A Burundian diploma, birth record or notarial document reaches a Turkish office with this director general’s certificate. No fee is shown on the HCCH page, and none was verified here.
A Burundian authority page unchanged since 2015
The last update of the Burundian authority page is dated 7 September 2015, about seven months after the Convention began to operate for Burundi. If the ministry’s name, the directorate’s structure or the certifying office has changed since, whether that was notified to the HCCH was not verified on this site. The e-APP chart of 13 August 2026 has no electronic apostille or online register entry for Burundi. That absence does not show that Burundi has no electronic service; it only shows that no date or address has been notified. How a Burundian certificate is checked was not found in this site’s survey.
A Turkish document for Burundi and the barcoded printout
When a Burundian authority looks for an apostille on a Turkish document, the certificate is obtained in Türkiye: a valilik or kaymakamlık, the provincial or district governor’s office, for administrative documents and every notarial act, and the adalet komisyonu başkanlığı at a high criminal court seat for the original of a judicial document. A barcoded printout from e-Devlet, the Turkish e-government portal, cannot receive a physical apostille; such a document enters the chain through a wet-signed certification by the issuing institution or a notary’s true copy certification. For six document types, including a criminal record extract and a civil registry extract, e-Apostil offers an electronic route, applied for by the document holder through their own e-Devlet account. How Burundian institutions receive a Turkish electronic certificate was not verified. A document certified for Burundi is not legalised again at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Burundi has not acceded to ETS 063, CIEC 16 or CIEC 17.
Translation in a Burundian file
Into which language, and with which certification, Burundian institutions want a Turkish document translated was not found in this site’s survey; the institution receiving it says. A translation made in Türkiye enters the chain through a notary; the notary’s certification receives its own certificate, which vouches for the notary’s signature, capacity and seal rather than for the translated text. Whether the Turkish translation of a Burundian document also covers the certificate is decided by the receiving Turkish institution. Open points: the present state of the four objections, whether the 2015 authority page is still accurate, the fee and the verification route. A translation office renders the text; it does not advise on the effect of an objection in a particular file.