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Türkiye

Guide to Türkiye ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Türkiye, formally the Republic of Türkiye, is located in Europe and the Middle East and is bordered by Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. It was a central part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries before becoming an independent republic in 1923. The official language is Turkish. The Turkish government provides a free genealogical service for all Turkish citizens called "Lineal Kinship Inquiry" and is accessible through the government website. For more information, see Civil Registration.

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Genealogy records are often kept on the local level in Türkiye.

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Türkiye is composed of a series of provinces:

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar Ağrı Aksaray Amasya Ankara Antalya Ardahan Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bartın Batman Bayburt Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale Çankırı Çorum Denizli Diyarbakır Düzce Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkâri Hatay Iğdır Isparta Istanbul İzmir Kahramanmaraş Karabük Karaman Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kilis Kırıkkale Kırklareli Kırşehir Kocaeli Konya Kütahya Malatya Manisa Mardin Mersin Muğla Muş Nevşehir Niğde Ordu Osmaniye Rize Sakarya Samsun Şanlıurfa Siirt Sinop Şırnak Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Uşak Van Yalova Yozgat Zonguldak