International monitors question Turkey referendum
Protests against the referendum result in Istanbul Source: AAP
International monitors say they have serious concerns about Turkey's weekend referendum that approved strengthening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's constitutional powers. The 47-member Council of Europe, the continent's leading human-rights body, says the referendum was an uneven contest. It cites what it calls an inadequate legal framework and late changes in ballot-counting.
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