Turkish opposition to appeal referendum result

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This comes as people in some major Turkish cities are holding nightly protests against the outcome of the referendum.

The CHP lawyer said the YSK should not finalize the election result until the party's application at the Council of State concludes.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has approached the Council of State - the highest administrative court in Turkey - in Ankara amid a row over Sunday's constitutional referendum, a lawyer from the party said on Friday.

Turkish opposition party CHP said it would appeal against a decision not to launch an investigation into alleged irregularities in last weekend's constitutional referendum, Reuters reported Friday. Bozdag said these judicial organs would "have no choice but to reject" such applications based on Turkish laws.

But there was anger and shock after the Supreme Election Board (YSK) made a last-minute decision to accept ballot documents in envelopes without an official stamp, which the opposition argues opened the way for fraud. The placard centre reads in Turkish: "NO, we will win" and the one right, reads: "NO, it is not over, it has just started".

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Global monitors say the electoral board's decision removed an important safeguard against fraud and was "contrary to Turkish law".

He added the CHP meant to employ all legal ways to challenge the result, including Turkey's Constitutional Court as well as European Court of Human Rights. The electoral board, however, published past rulings on the validity of unstamped ballots.

Opposition parties appealed against electoral board's decision to allow unstamped ballots to be counted. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.

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