Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality

Sovereign states shall decide who will acquire or maintain their nationality. Thus, the issue on acquisition and loss of nationality of a State falls within the exclusive competence of this State. In other words, the issue of nationality, inprinciple, is a reserved domain of states. States shall det...

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Main Author: Gülce Gümüşlü Tunçağıl
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Published: Istanbul University Press 2021-06-01
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description Sovereign states shall decide who will acquire or maintain their nationality. Thus, the issue on acquisition and loss of nationality of a State falls within the exclusive competence of this State. In other words, the issue of nationality, inprinciple, is a reserved domain of states. States shall determine their conditions about acquiring and losing their nationality in their internal laws. However, fulfilment of the stipulated conditions in internal law does not mean that person has an absolute right for acquisition of nationality b ecause states have discretionary power. This discretionary power should be used by States in accordance with international law. The terms of international law consists of international conventions, customary international law and the principles of law generally recognized. The main international document that adopted the right to a nationality as a human right is the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Besides this, some of the conventions relating to nationality issues are from 12 April, The Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws (1930) and the European Convention on Nationality (6 November, 1997). In our paper, firstly, the articles on the right to nationality and loss and deprivation of nationality in these international legal documents will be examined briefly. After that, in our study, the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights to the decisions about loss of nationality against a person’s will and the denial of naturalization requests are going to be examined. Notwithstanding the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not contain any provision on the right to a nationality.ın the past , the European Commission of Human Rights rejected cases concerning loss or deprivation of citizenship or denial of naturalization request on the grounds of incompatible ratione materiae. The ECrtHR changed its judicial opinion about this issue.
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spelling doaj-art-521a645c9f6e4d9ebf315083acf89e902025-08-20T02:27:05ZengIstanbul University PressPublic and Private International Law Bulletin2667-41142021-06-014119912710.26650/ppil.2021.41.1.815537123456Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding NationalityGülce Gümüşlü Tunçağıl0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8076-7807Çankaya Üniversitesi, Ankara, TurkiyeSovereign states shall decide who will acquire or maintain their nationality. Thus, the issue on acquisition and loss of nationality of a State falls within the exclusive competence of this State. In other words, the issue of nationality, inprinciple, is a reserved domain of states. States shall determine their conditions about acquiring and losing their nationality in their internal laws. However, fulfilment of the stipulated conditions in internal law does not mean that person has an absolute right for acquisition of nationality b ecause states have discretionary power. This discretionary power should be used by States in accordance with international law. The terms of international law consists of international conventions, customary international law and the principles of law generally recognized. The main international document that adopted the right to a nationality as a human right is the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Besides this, some of the conventions relating to nationality issues are from 12 April, The Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws (1930) and the European Convention on Nationality (6 November, 1997). In our paper, firstly, the articles on the right to nationality and loss and deprivation of nationality in these international legal documents will be examined briefly. After that, in our study, the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights to the decisions about loss of nationality against a person’s will and the denial of naturalization requests are going to be examined. Notwithstanding the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not contain any provision on the right to a nationality.ın the past , the European Commission of Human Rights rejected cases concerning loss or deprivation of citizenship or denial of naturalization request on the grounds of incompatible ratione materiae. The ECrtHR changed its judicial opinion about this issue.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/456E005D73894DCBBE252EBF35B621E9decisions of the european court of human rightsright to a nationalityreserved domain of statescertain issues regarding nationalitythe european convention on human rights article 8.
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Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
Public and Private International Law Bulletin
decisions of the european court of human rights
right to a nationality
reserved domain of states
certain issues regarding nationality
the european convention on human rights article 8.
title Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
title_full Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
title_fullStr Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
title_full_unstemmed Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
title_short Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on Certain Issues Regarding Nationality
title_sort decisions of the european court of human rights on certain issues regarding nationality
topic decisions of the european court of human rights
right to a nationality
reserved domain of states
certain issues regarding nationality
the european convention on human rights article 8.
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