Detection of Sham Marriages and Their Legal Consequences in Acquisition of Turkish Nationality through Marriage

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Elif Selen Batigün’s article in Ombudsman Akademik addresses how sham marriages can be identified in the acquisition of Turkish nationality through marriage and what legal consequences follow. Set against Article 16 of the Turkish Citizenship Act No. 5901, it treats cohabitation as a family unit and the absence of conduct incompatible with marriage as the main indicators for preventing marriages of convenience, and notes the decisive role of administrative scrutiny and investigation in practice.