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2017 Turkish Referendum Thread
Topic Started: Apr 16 2017, 10:18 PM (170 Views)
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(The Guardian) Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Turkey’s landmark referendum.

Voting is under way for the historic vote that will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be allowed to enforce sweeping new powers.

Erdoğan wants to replace the parliamentary system with an executive presidency – arguing that it will bring stability and modernise the country. But opponents fear it could lead to greater authoritarianism, a lack of parliamentary and judicial oversight and see Erdoğan remain in office until 2029.

About 55 million people are eligible to vote across 167,000 polling stations, with the results expected to be announced later this evening.
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--Unofficial overall results from #Turkey's #referendum2017
YES: 56.21%
NO: 43.79%
Ballots opened: 61% (Anadolu Agency, 16 April 2017)
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(The Guardian) Weekly newspaper The Economist has come under fire from Erdoğan supporters after declaring that “Turkey is sliding into dictatorship” on its front cover this week.

The state-run Anadolu agency reported: Turkey’s justice minister on Thursday criticised British news weekly The Economist for claiming on its cover that Turkey is “sliding into dictatorship” over a picture of the president. Bekir Bozdag, speaking to reporters outside a restaurant in Ankara, said: ‘What The Economist magazine has done shows great disrespect. It is a violation of journalistic ethics.’
-Read more: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21720590-recep-tayyip-erdogan-carrying-out-harshest-crackdown-decades-west-must-not-abandon?fsrc=scn/tw/te/rfd/pe
-Read more: http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkish-justice-minister-slams-the-economist-magazine/796361

The Economist’s briefing on the political landscape in Turkey, as well as that no-holds-barred leader, is well worth a read. Here’s an extract: The result will help determine the fate of Mr Erdoğan, who has governed since 2003 – first as a reforming prime minister, but lately as a strongman president who has come to treat all opposition as a form of treason. A no would be a grave blow for Mr Erdogan. A yes would root his power in the very foundations of the state.

The fate of Turkey is at stake, too. Ever since Mr Erdoğan took power, the country has been a test of what happens when democracy is put together with political Islam. Turkey was also an example of the benign influence of the European Union, which encouraged open markets and civil rights. Some years ago Mr Erdoğan began to reject all that for nationalism and autocracy. Lately he has courted Russia and the Gulf monarchies. He would use a yes as a popular endorsement of that illiberal path.

Since Mr Erdoğan has all the advantages, anything but a resounding victory ought to count as a defeat. At least 40% of the country – religious and conservative – will support him come what may. He chose the timing of the vote in the wake of a failed coup last summer, when most of Turkey had united behind him. He has attacked the EU, Turkey’s biggest market, in an attempt to stir up nationalist support. The authorities have nearly 50,000 people in detention, whom it calls coup-supporters and terrorists; it has sacked 100,000 more. Abetted by a captive, frightened judiciary, the police are rounding up anyone Mr Erdoğan designates as an enemy.
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--#Turkey #referendum2017 unofficial overall results
YES: 54.26%
NO: 45.74%
Ballots opened: 75.54% (Anadolu Agency, 16 April 2017)
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--Turkey: After 80% of the votes counted:

Result projection:

Yes: 49.6-51.8%
No: 50.4-48.2%

#Turkeyreferendum (Europe Elects, 16 April 2017)
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--#TurkeysChoice: Results in Germany for #TurkeyReferendum as of 15:40GMT http://trtworld.com/referendum

Yes: 63.34% No: 36.66% [Source: AA] (TRT World, 16 April 2017)
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--#Turkey #referendum2017 unofficial results from #Istanbul
YES: 49.96%
NO: 50.04%
Ballots opened: 88.35% (Anadolu Agency, 16 April 2017)
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--#BREAKING NO votes lead in Turkey's Istanbul for the first time with 88 % of votes counted ( 50.12 %) (CNN Turk, 16 April 2017)

--In Istanbul, "No" inches ahead of "Yes". But nationwide, with 85% of votes counted, Yes at 53.2%. (Zia Wiese, Politico Europe - 16 April 2017)

--No votes catching up in Ankara as well Izmir No votes ahead by more than 2 to 1 #Turkeyreferendum (Amberin Zaman, Wilson Center for Policy - 16 April 2017)
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--#TurkeysChoice: Results in #TurkeyReferendum as of 16:00GMT

Votes counted: 86%
Yes: 52.96% No: 47.02% (TRT World, 16 April 2017)
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--Votes from the UK is an overwhelming "No" vote with 80.47% to 19.53% for Yes. (Seref Isler, BBC News - 16 April 2017)
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--#BREAKING 'Yes' leads with 52.7% in Turkey referendum after 90% count of vote: state media (AFP, 16 April 2017)
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--#TurkeyReferendum: Following the dramatic fall in YES votes, #SupremeElectionCouncil stops sharing ballot data with the main opposition #CHP ()Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - 16 April 2017)

--Turkey: After 90% of the votes counted:
Result projection:

Yes: 51.4%
No: 48.6% (Europe Elects, 16 April 2017)
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--96% of votes counted. Yes at 51.88%. No at 48.12%. I will stop updating but wow. (Alp Ozcelik, BuzzFeed News - 16 April 2017)
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--This is looking close. Very close. #Turkey (Mark Lowen, BBC News - 16 April 2017)

--Nail-biting times in Turkey as referendum counting goes on. W/ 96.2pc of ballot boxes opened (acc. to Fox) Yes is on 51.88pc - and falling. (Laura Pitel, The Times of London - 16 April 2017)
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(The Guardian) Ankara votes no with 93% of votes counted
--The no vote has taken the lead in Ankara. This from Reuters: Votes against constitutional changes to create an executive presidency and hand the Turkish president, Tayyip Erdoğan, sweeping new powers pulled ahead in the capital, Ankara, to just over 50%, broadcaster CNN Turk said on Sunday.

With 93% of the ballots opened in Ankara, the city showed 50.2% in favour of no. That would mean the no camp looked set to narrowly prevail in all three of Turkey’s biggest cities – Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
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--AA: #Ankara now leaning towards "No" vote, along with Istanbul and Izmir. Urban areas cancelling out early gains made by "Yes" vote. #Turkey (Diego Cupolo, Deutsche Welle - 16 April 2017)

--BREAKING NO votes have got the lead in #ANKARA for the first time (93% of the votes counted) #Turkeyreferendum (CNN Turk, 16 April 2017)
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