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Turkey referendum: Erdogan tells poll monitors to 'know their place'

Monitors suggested the referendum giving him extra powers fell short of international standards

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Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wave national flags as they wait for his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Ankara. Photo: Reuters

Agencies Ankara
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday told international monitors to “know your place”, after they suggested the landmark referendum giving him extra powers fell short of international standards.

“Know your place first,” Erdogan told the monitors in an address to supporters outside his vast presidential palace in Ankara. “We neither see, hear, nor know those politically motivated reports that you will draft,” he said, after the report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) monitors.

“We will continue down our road,” he said. “This country