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Turkey Referendum


FILE – In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017 file photo, a Turkish man supporting the ‘NO’ vote for the upcoming referendum, holds a Turkish flag and a placard, reading in Turkish: ‘No to unemployment ‘, in central Istanbul. Times have been hard for Turkey, buffeted by bombings, violence between government forces and Kurdish rebels, refugee flows from the war in neighbouring Syria and a failed coup attempt that unleashed a huge crackdown under an ongoing state of emergency. On April 16, 2017, Turks will decide whether to make the post of president more powerful in a constitutional referendum that is a big gamble for tough-talking president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.(AP/RSS Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)