Moldova is a destination where a Turkish document leaves with an apostille and a Moldovan document arrives with one, yet the two directions do not mirror each other. In Türkiye two kinds of office place apostilles depending on the document; in Moldova the split runs differently, between the foreign ministry for administrative documents and an agency of the Ministry of Justice for everything else. Moldova has also run an electronic apostille since 2013, and the summer of 2026 opened a new path in three-country files when Germany’s objection was lifted. This page covers those three subjects.
Administrative documents to one ministry, everything else to the Justice agency
According to the HCCH authority page (11 May 2020), apostille competence in Moldova is divided: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration handles administrative documents, while the Agency for Legal Information Technology Resources of the Ministry of Justice handles all other public documents. Court judgments, notarial acts and civil registry records belong to the second group. The division resembles the Turkish one without matching it: in Türkiye an administrative document and a notarial act share the same office, the valilik (provincial governor’s office) or the kaymakamlık (district governor’s office), while the original of a court document goes to the presidency of the judicial commission at a high criminal court seat; in Moldova the line runs between administrative and non-administrative. Fees and processing options are on the HCCH page and are not copied here.
apostila.gov.md: an electronic register older than Türkiye’s own
The HCCH e-APP chart records that electronic apostilles started in Moldova in October 2013 through the Ministry of Justice channel; the online register is at apostila.gov.md, and the HCCH authority page gives the same address. That register predates e-Apostil, the official Turkish electronic apostille system, by several years. When a Moldovan court judgment or diploma arrives in Türkiye with an electronic apostille, the Turkish institution checks the certificate in that register. Turkish notaries have been told the same through their own channel: the Union of Turkish Notaries (TNB), in its Consolidated Circular 25, lists Moldova among the states that switched to electronic apostilles, dates the Moldovan e-apostille from 01.10.2013 and asks notaries to look for it in line with the digitally signed e-apostille practice. Whether apostilles placed by the foreign ministry on administrative documents are electronic is not stated separately in the chart, which names only the Ministry of Justice.
What Germany’s withdrawal of 17 July 2026 changes
Moldova acceded on 19 June 2006 and its HCCH row shows 16 March 2007. Türkiye raised no objection, and the apostille relationship between the two states dates from that day. Germany had objected to the accession, and that objection was withdrawn with effect from 17 July 2026. Nothing changes for a Turkish document; the change appears in three-country files. A person living in Türkiye who has to send a German document to Moldova can now do so with a German apostille, whereas before that date the consular chain was needed. Anyone setting out with an older German document should check that date first.
Moldova’s objection to Kosovo in Balkan files
Moldova is among the states that objected to the accession of Kosovo; its name appears in the Kosovo note of the HCCH full report. As a result no apostille circulates between Kosovo and Moldova in either direction. The detail matters in files that pass through Türkiye: a Kosovar student in Türkiye whose Kosovar document is bound for Moldova prepares it through the two states’ own legalisation procedures, not with an apostille. A Turkish diploma earned by that student is a Turkish document and travels with an apostille. Between Türkiye and Moldova the objection has no effect.
Multilingual extracts accepted, marriage exemption absent
CIEC Convention 16 has applied to Moldova since 15 May 2008: a birth, marriage or death extract issued in multilingual form (Formül A, B or C) by a Turkish nüfus müdürlüğü, the civil registry office, passes in Moldova without an apostille, and the Moldovan authority decides whether it wants a translation. Moldova has not acceded to CIEC 17, so a single-status or residence certificate presented for a marriage enjoys no legalisation exemption and takes an apostille. The 1968 European Convention (ETS 063) has applied to Moldova since 31 August 2002; consular documents of the two states are mutually exempt from legalisation. EU Regulation 2016/1191 works only between Member States; neither Moldova nor Türkiye is covered by it.
Translation for Moldova and the points left unverified
A Moldovan document is presented in Türkiye with a Turkish translation certified by a notary; no source read here says whether the Moldovan certificate must be translated as well, and the Turkish office that takes the document decides. For a Turkish document going to Moldova, the language and the place of the translation are learned from the receiving Moldovan institution; a translation made in Türkiye is certified by a notary and that certification receives its own apostille. Points not verified on this site: how Moldova defines an administrative document; whether the foreign ministry’s apostilles are electronic; and how Moldovan institutions treat a Turkish e-Apostil print-out. The HCCH authority page is dated 2020, and the agency’s name or the division of work may have changed since.