The Hague Conference’s electronic Apostille Programme, the e-APP, carries two distinct terms: e-Apostille and e-Register. Türkiye’s implementation of both is the official e-Apostil system. This site is not that system; the official system is at eapostil.gov.tr, and this page explains the terms only.
Two components that can exist separately
An e-Apostille is a certificate issued as an electronically signed file instead of on paper; the document is produced, signed and delivered electronically. An e-Register is an online record of the certificates a competent authority has issued, on which a receiving authority checks that a certificate really came from that authority. The two are independent: a state may run an e-Register only, issue e-Apostilles only, or do both. The HCCH implementation chart shows them in separate columns for each state.
From the Article 7 register to an online register
The e-Register is not an invention of the digital age. Article 7 of the Convention requires each competent authority to keep a register recording the number and date of every certificate, the name of the signatory and the capacity in which the signatory acted, and to confirm on request whether a certificate matches the register. The e-Register is that register put online. Türkiye has two verification routes: electronic certificates are checked on the official system’s verification page by uploading the file; paper certificates issued by governors’ and district governors’ offices are checked on the e-İçişleri page of the Ministry of Interior with the serial number, verification code and date. For paper certificates issued by judicial commissions this site’s survey found no online verification route; the Article 7 register exists for them on paper. Under articles 230 and 239 of the Turkish regulation on the administrative and clerical services of the courts, each judicial commission keeps a register of certification annotations (tasdik şerhi kaydı) whose columns include the year and number of the certification, the signatory, the destination country, the translation language and the person who collected the document, so such a certificate is checked against the issuing commission’s register.
The Turkish implementation: e-Apostil
The official system calls the electronic handling of the apostille e-Apostil. The HCCH chart dates the Turkish e-Apostille to January 2019; the provision making PTT, the national postal operator, the intermediary entered into force on the same date through article 22 of the Postal Services Law. The Ministry of Justice applies the certificate to judicial documents and the Ministry of Interior to administrative ones; PTT receives the application, signs the file with its qualified electronic certificate and delivers it. Six document types are covered: the criminal record extract, the court judgment, the civil registry extract and the multilingual birth, marriage and death extracts. The holder applies from their own e-Devlet account; login credentials are personal, and this site never asks for them at any stage. PTT charges a service fee per document, stated on the official page.
Verification by file upload, not by number
The Turkish e-Register does not work by entering a number: the electronic file itself is uploaded, the page computes its hash value and compares it with the record. The check therefore starts from the electronic file; a check starting from a printout is not described on the verification page. How the receiving institution wants to receive the file should be asked before the application is made.
Refusal of an electronic certificate
The Hague Conference notice of 1 July 2026 states that a validly issued e-Apostille cannot be refused simply because it is electronic, and that this holds whether or not the destination state issues e-Apostilles itself. That is the HCCH’s reading; the practice of individual institutions has not been measured. How the fields of an electronic certificate are to be rendered in a translation, and from what, is not stated in the sources read for this site; the receiving institution is asked.