Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for
Foreign Public Documents ("Hague Convention") is an
international treaty and the source of "Apostille", which
was drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law on
October 5, 1961. It has been 54 years now, that the Hague
Convention is in effect with no amendment. On the other hand,
Special Commission of the Hague Conference prepared the
"Handbook on the Practical Operation of the
Apostille" in 2013, in order to show the implementation
of the Convention and to serve as a guide for the issues that arise
during the application thereof.
Hague Convention mainly specifies the modalities, through which
a document issued in one of the signatory countries can be
certified, in other words "Apostilled", for legal
purposes in all the other signatory states. The expression of
"Apostille" comes from the French word
"apostiller", as originated from an old French term
"postille", which actually means
