Turkish election board to evaluate referendum result concerns

The head of Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) said on Wednesday that the board will evaluate appeals for annulment of constitutional referendum result.

The complaints would be reviewed before noon, Sadi Guven said in Ankara, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

According to unofficial results, the "Yes" campaign won with 51.41 percent, while the "No" votes stood at 48.59 percent. Voter turnout was 85.46 percent.

The leader of Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, slammed on Tuesday the decision of Supreme Election Board to count unsealed ballots in the referendum.

Kilicdaroglu said he respected the nation's will, but the decision on unsealed ballots had overshadowed the results.

The petition of the CHP cited a number of irregularities during both the voting and counting processes for the referendum, specifically underlining that the YSK's decision to count unsealed ballot papers as valid increased suspicions of fraud.

The CHP highlighted that the decision given by the YSK during the voting process made it impossible to distinguish proper ballot papers from unsealed ones, increasing question marks over the referendum. Endit