‘Yes’ leads with 52.7% in Turkey referendum after 90% count of vote
According to initial results, the 'No' campaign has mustered 47.3 percent of the votes.
Electoral staff members count votes after polls closed in Turkey’s tightly-contested referendum on expanding the powers of the president on April 16, 2017 in Istanbul. Turkey was voting to decide whether to expand the president’s powers in a bitterly-contested referendum set to determine the future course of the key NATO member and EU hopeful. / AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
The ‘Yes’ campaign to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded powers was just ahead in a tightly-contested referendum on Sunday but the ‘No’ was closing the gap, according to initial results.
The ‘Yes’ campaign had won 52.7 percent of the vote while the ‘No’ campaign had mustered 47.3 percent, the election commission said in figures quoted by state news agency Anadolu, in a count based on more than 90 percent of the ballot boxes.
© Agence France-Presse
For more news your way, follow The Citizen on Facebook and Twitter.
For more news your way
Download our app and read this and other great stories on the move. Available for Android and iOS.
