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WH postpones comments on Turkey referendum till monitors' report finished

Xinhua, April 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

The White House said on Monday it would not comment on the result of a constitutional reform referendum in Turkey until a review of the vote by an international electoral monitoring mission is finished.

"There is an international commission that is reviewing this and issues a report in 10 to 12 days," said White House spokesman Sean Spicer said here at a briefing. "We will wait and let them do their jobs."

Turkey's Supreme Electoral Council declared late Sunday that the "yes" camp in the constitutional reform referendum had won amid an outcry from the opposition that the voting was rigged.

As a result of the referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now on the road to enjoy sweeping powers, including directly appointing ministers and high court judges. Enditem