Based on a list of the Turkish Election Commission from 2018, which foreign Turks could use to find out whether they were eligible to vote in the presidential election, a determination procedure was initiated against 450 Austro-Turks. 24 of them have now been stripped of their Austrian passports.
24 Viennese of Turkish origin have lost their Austrian citizenship. The basis for this was a determination procedure of the municipal department MA 35 (Immigration and Citizenship), as reported by the newspaper “Kurier” (Thursday edition). In total, such proceedings were initiated against 450 Austro-Turks on the basis of a list of the Turkish electoral commission that was put online in 2018. At the beginning of August, 60 of them had been settled.
With the help of the list, Turks living abroad could find out whether they were eligible to vote in the presidential election in Turkey – which is actually only possible for Turkish citizens. Unlike the alleged Turkish voter registration list provided by the Freedom Party to the Ministry of the Interior and the federal provinces in 2017, the Administrative Court (VwGH) confirmed the usability of the current list last year.
However, the lawyer of about a dozen affected persons, Kazim Yilmaz, doubted this and filed an appeal with the Regional Administrative Court. If the court finds in favour of MA35, Yilmaz wants to appeal to the highest courts. After all, the list had never been confirmed by Turkey.
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