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Urgent: Polling stations open for Turkish constitutional referendum

Xinhua, April 16, 2017 Adjust font size:

More than 167,000 polling stations across Turkey opened at 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) on Sunday for a referendum on expanding presidential powers.

More than 55 million Turkish citizens will vote on constitutional amendment that proposes replacement of the current parliamentary system with an executive presidential system. Endi