- Title: Hundreds in Istanbul protest Turkish referendum result
- Date: 18th April 2017
- Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (APRIL 18, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WOMEN DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING (Turkish): "NO WE DON'T GIVE UP, NO WE DON'T ACCEPT" VARIOUS OF WOMEN PLAYING DRUMS VARIOUS OF WOMEN CHANTING SLOGANS AND DEMONSTRATING VARIOUS OF TOP SHOTS OF WOMEN DEMONSTRATING WOMAN BLOWING WHISTLE DEMONSTRATORS APPLAUDING (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) "NO" VOTER, SEVIM CELEBE, SAYING: "If an authoritarian rule is introduced instead of a parliamentary system we will end up like Iraq and Syria. How Saddam had been elevated into a dictator and ended the way it did, Tayyip Erdogan will end like that as well. I am not just saying let's stand up for our republic. I am saying we should stand up against Erdogan as well." VARIOUS OF WOMEN CHANTING (Turkish): "NO MEANS NO", "NO, WE DON'T ACCEPT" (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) "NO" VOTER, ALI, SAYING: "We say no to one-man rule as women, men and children. We will never come to terms with this. If you say this voting and this referendum is just, I leave the rest to God and don't say anything else." (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) "NO" VOTER, EDA YILMAYAN, SAYING: "The result is definitely not right. There are 2.5 million (unstamped) votes. The president of the High Electoral Board said this himself. We are in such a strange situation. They are like a nightmare lingering on this country. We wait for them to leave. We will make them leave." VARIOUS OF WOMEN MARCHING
- Embargoed: 2nd May 2017 19:46
- Keywords: Turkey referendum Erdogan opposition polls celebrations protest Istanbul Kadikoy
- Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA0016CXGGG7
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- Story Text: Hundreds of people, mostly women, marched through the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday (April 18) for a second night to protest the result of a constitutional referendum that granted sweeping new powers to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
People have been demonstrating in big cities since Sunday (April 16) after calls on social media for protests in several cities.
The result of the referendum on Sunday laid bare the deep divide between the urban middle classes, who see their future as part of a European mainstream, and the pious rural poor who favour Erdogan's strong hand. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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