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		</div><p>Turkey&#8217;s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in Sunday&#8217;s referendum that will grant sweeping powers to the presidency, hailing the result as a &#8220;historic decision&#8221;.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan said unofficial results showed the &#8220;yes&#8221; side had won by a margin of 1.3 million votes.</p>
<p>The president struck a conciliatory tone, thanking all voters regardless of how they cast their ballots and describing the referendum as a &#8220;historic decision&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;April 16 is the victory of all who said yes or no, of the whole 80 million, of the whole of Turkey of 780,000-square kilometers,&#8221;</i> Mr Erdogan said.</p>
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<p>Earlier, the leader of Turkey&#8217;s main nationalist party also claimed victory.</p>
<p>Nationalist Action Party head Devlet Bahceli said in a statement that Turkish voters chose of their free will to move the country from a parliamentary to a presidential system of government.</p>
<p>Mr Bahceli called the outcome &#8220;a very important success; a win that makes neglect and denial impossible&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said Turkey rejected international &#8220;pressure, blackmail, imposition, force and threats by the whole world to put the &#8216;no&#8217; choice forward&#8221;.</p>
<p>The party, the fourth largest in parliament, backed Mr Erdogan and the governing Justice and Development Party in their push to change Turkey&#8217;s parliamentary system into a presidential one.</p>
<p>The main opposition party said it will challenge 37% of the ballot boxes counted.</p>
<p>Republic People&#8217;s Party, or CHP, deputy chairman Erdal Aksunger predicted the figure could even increase to 60%.</p>
<p>Mr Aksunger said: <i>&#8220;Since this morning, we have determined some 2.5 million problematic votes.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The country&#8217;s pro-Kurdish opposition party, which also opposed the constitutional changes, says it plans to object to two-thirds of the ballots.</p>
<p>The Peoples&#8217; Democratic Party said on its Twitter account: <i>&#8220;Our data indicates a manipulation in the range of three to 4%.&#8221;</i></p>
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