Children's Citizenship in Cross-Border Surrogacy

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This article focuses on the citizenship of children born through cross-border surrogacy. It notes the difficulties created by Turkey’s prohibition of surrogacy, the widespread application of the mater semper certa est rule, and the lack of international regulation on parentage in such cases. The article examines the risk of statelessness where nationality cannot be acquired through jus sanguinis or jus soli, and considers acquisition through adoption and, failing that, acquisition under Article 12/1(c) of the Turkish Citizenship Law as an exceptional grant of nationality.