Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/20/2015

Subject: The decision on single-parent adoptions: the application concerns the refusal of the adoptive mother’s request to have her own forename entered on the personal documents for her adopted son in place of the name of the child’s biological mother; according to the Court, there had been a vacuum in Turkish civil law regarding the recognition of the adoptive mother’s forename

Parties: Gözüm c. Turchia

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Art. 23 Equality between men and women