Greece

In Greece, birth certificates may not be issued to parents who cannot prove they are Greek nationals. This impacts Greece’s stateless population of Turkish descent, which the government refers to as ‘Greek Muslims.’ A joint CSO submission to the CRC in 2011 lamented the inaction of the Greek state on reducing statelessness for those who historically had been stripped of their Greek citizenship through a discriminatory provision which has since been abolished. As of 2020, an estimated 60,000 people who had their citizenship stripped from them still had no way of regaining it. Statelessness is passed on intergenerationally when birth certificates are not issued to their descendants.