Turkey votes “yes” to constitutional reform
World News • September 2010 • Views: 463
TURKEY’S mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party has won a ringing endorsement from voters in a bitterly contested referendum on constitutional changes that are poised to raise democratic standards and further erode the powers of the country’s once omnipotent generals.
Final results show that 58% of Turks approved the government’s proposed changes to the constitution, which was written by the army after it overthrew the government in 1980