Global election monitors have condemned the Turkish government's handling of the vote as "inadequate for the holding of a genuinely democratic referendum", according to CNN.
Preliminary returns say the presidential proposal passed by just 51 percent of the vote.
Erdogan declared a narrow victory in the vote, which marked the biggest overhaul of modern Turkish politics.
Many of them are poor, religious conservatives from the Turkish interior who credit Erdogan's government with raising their standard of living. "We stood up as a nation".
But Gulnur Aybet, a senior adviser to Mr Erdogan, told Sky News the "Yes" side had won "fair and square" and the reported number of ballot papers accepted without an official stamp was a "gross exaggeration". [Sadi Guven, the head of Turkey's high electoral board, or YSK] said the YSK had made a decision to consider unstamped ballots as valid unless they were proved to be fraudulent after a high number of complaints-including one from the ruling AK Party-that its officials had failed to stamp some ballot papers.
The National Security Council and the cabinet convened successively on Monday, one day after a public vote that confirmed governance system change from the parliamentarian one to the executive presidency.
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"The legal framework, which is focused on elections, remained inadequate for the holding of a genuinely democratic referendum", the monitors said in a joint statement. Simsek added that Turkey's relationship with the European Union will be based on mutual interests and that some of the issues between Ankara and Europe will be solved after the upcoming elections in several European countries.
Germany, host to some 4 million Turks, said it was up to Erdogan himself to heal the rifts that the vote had exposed.
It is of the utmost importance, said Jagland, "to secure the independence of the judiciary in line with the principle of rule of law enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights". Most importantly, it signals the end of Turkey's parliamentary system of government in favour of a presidential system, which would take effect after the next Presidentialelection in 2019. Erdogan's increased power would grant him even more leverage over EU policies, by allowing him to threaten to open the refugee floodgate on the European continent.
CHP legislator Utku Cakirozer told The Associated Press his party would file official objections Monday to results at local electoral board branches, before taking their case to the Supreme Electoral Board. "The High Electoral Board has acted like this is a coup".
TRT World's Ediz Tiyansan has more on the Turkish referendum.
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