Residence permission, family life and a foreign national: Constitutional Court case

The applicant was a German national who had lived in Türkiye with his wife and daughter since 1994 under repeatedly extended residence permissions. A later request for a short-term residence permission was refused after an N-82 restriction code was applied.

The constitutional question

The Court treated the complaint under the right to respect for family life. It accepted that the State has discretion over the admission and residence of foreign nationals, but that an immigration measure can still be reviewed when it interferes with a constitutionally protected right.

What a reader should not infer

The case does not create an automatic right to a residence permission and does not mean that every administrative code or refusal is unlawful. The assessment depends on the decision’s reasons, the family ties proved, the public interest relied on and the reasoning supplied by the reviewing courts.

The source is the official Constitutional Court decision. The decision is in Turkish; this page is an English case note, not a certified translation.

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