Formül A is the multilingual extract of a Turkish birth record. Its field headings are printed in several languages and the document was designed so that the reading authority needs no translation. The same pattern gives Formül B for a marriage record and Formül C for a death record. All three rest on the convention of 1976 on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records, drawn up within the Commission internationale de l’état civil (CIEC).
In Germany: neither apostille nor translation
The German missions in Türkiye state that birth, marriage and death extracts issued under the convention of 8 September 1976 need neither a translation nor an apostille to be used in Germany; both Germany and Türkiye have acceded to that convention. The missions’ visa information sheet repeats the point for the international birth certificate: no apostille is required. If the same file also asks for a nüfus kayıt örneği, the full civil registry extract, the rule for that document is different and is set out on the civil registry extract page of this site.
The same document in another country
The exemption rests on a treaty, so it works only in states that have acceded to it. The status table published by the CIEC (read on 30.09.2026) lists 24 bound states: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Türkiye; Greece has signed without ratifying. In those states article 8 has the extracts accepted without legalisation or equivalent formality. A country outside the convention may treat Formül A like any other public document and ask for an apostille.
When an apostille is required
Formül A, B and C are among the documents accepted by e-Apostil, the official Turkish electronic apostille system; the electronic route runs from the holder’s own account on e-Devlet, the Turkish e-government portal. If an apostille is needed on the paper document, the application goes to the valilik or kaymakamlık, the provincial or district governor’s office, because a civil status extract is an administrative document. A barcode printout from e-Devlet receives no paper apostille, so on the paper route the extract should carry a handwritten signature and seal.
Is the translation really unnecessary
On a multilingual extract only the field headings are multilingual; the entries written into the fields remain in the language of the issuing country. The convention itself contains no translation exemption: article 8 speaks only of acceptance without legalisation, and the German missions’ statement is a German rule. Whether the receiving authority wants a translation of those entries is a question for that authority; before the whole document is translated, the office should be asked which part it actually wants.
Formül A and the full civil registry extract
Formül A is the multilingual extract of a birth record, but not a record of the birth alone: under article 2 of the convention the extract is drawn up from the original entries and the later annotations of the record, and article 5 provides symbols for a later marriage, divorce or death, each with its date and place. How the Turkish form is filled in on a given extract was not measured on this site. The nüfus kayıt örneği is a separate document, and the German missions in Türkiye list the two under separate headings with separate rules. The receiving authority may ask for the nüfus kayıt örneği in addition, and the destination’s rule for that document applies independently of the Formül A exemption.
The short answer for Formül A
For a file going to Germany, Formül A, B and C are used without an apostille and without a translation, as the German missions state. For any other country, the first check is that country’s position under the 1976 convention; the decision on apostille and translation then follows the list of the receiving authority. Where a translation is asked for after all, it is made from the Turkish entries by a sworn translator and, if the office insists, certified by a notary, with the apostille on that certification issued by the governor or district governor.