Turkey’s International obligations 6. Turkey acceded to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons in 2015, however, is not a signatory to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 7. Turkey has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and protect the rights of stateless persons on the basis of other UN and regional treaties to which it is a party. These include, among others the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see article 24.3), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (see articles. 2.2 and 3), the Convention of the Rights of the Child (see articles 2, 3, 7 and 8) the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (see article 5(d)(iii)), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (see article 18), the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (see article 29). Furthermore, the right to a nationality is included in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 8. Turkey is not a party to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness or the 1997 European Convention on Nationality. While the right to nationality is not directly included in the European Convention on Human Rights, it does include provisions relevant in the Turkish context, such as those on the right to fair trial (see article 6) and on “no punishment without law” (see article 7), as well as private and family life (see article 8). 9. In addition, and on the basis of article 29 mentioned under the CMW, in 2016, the Committee on Migrant Workers recommended that Turkey ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued with personal identity documents in line with Target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1997 European Convention on Nationality.5 National Law 10. Turkey’s nationality law No. 5901 (12/6/2009) is primarily based on the principle of jus sanguinis, according to which nationality is based on descent, with additional provisions based on the principle of jus soli, according to which nationality is based on birth on the territory. The additional jus soli provisions grant Turkish nationality to children born in Turkey but acquiring no citizenship of any State by birth through his/her foreign mother or father; or a child found in Turkey is deemed born in Turkey unless otherwise proven: Article 8 – (1): ‘’A child born in Turkey but acquiring no citizenship of any state by birth through his/her alien mother or father is a Turkish citizen from the moment of birth’’. 11. Turkey’s nationality law No. 5901 (12/6/2009) regulates the revocation of citizenship in its articles 29 and 30: 5 Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, Concluding observations (2016) CMW/C/TUR/CO/1 2