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CHP leader Kilicdaroglu: Result will determine 'Turkey's destiny'

“We ran a beautiful campaign and embraced all our citizens. We are voting on Turkey’s destiny, ” said leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu ahead of the referendum. 

'We are voting on Turkey’s destiny'

- CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu

"God willing, the result will be auspicious and we will all have the chance to determine Turkey's fundamental problems," he added.

The CHP is Turkey's main opposition party and opposes Erdogan's proposed changes to the constitution.

Leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu greets supporters outside a polling station where he voted in the constitutional referendum in Ankara on 16 April (AFP)
Kilicdaroglu spoke against what he deemed unfair practices by the government during the campaigns leading up to the vote. 

"This is definitely not going to be a fair referendum. We know that the pro-Erdogan media will have a broadcasting policy that completes ignores the opposition,"  Kilicdaroglu said in February.

"It will be presented as if we are running against the state."