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System that we have one president and so that we have a much stronger executive position. >> and with the deepest of respect, your greatest critics will say that this is the march towards dictatorship. what's your response? >> translator: for a dictatorship to exist, you don't necessarily have to have a presidential system. here we have an election, a ballot box. if you say a ballot box produces a dictator, that would be unjust, unfair to the ballot box process and to those who cast their ballots in that box. >> well, isha, it was a wide-ranging view, and we also spoke about the call he had wi...

Slim margin of victory, 51 to 49% but he is insistent that one this referendum was a democratic exercise and the results is the will of the people here in turkey and that two, the shift in the way this country will be run going forward and it's a massive shift. he says has sufficient checks and balances to ensure that it's about more than one man's rule. but is this a march towards dictatorship? i asked him that. >> translator: a dictatorship to exist, you don't necessarily have to have a presidential system. here we have an election, a ballot box. if you say a ballot box produces a dictator, ...

About more than just one man's rule. so is this a march towards dictate toreship? >> translator: a dictatorship to exist you don't need to have a presidential system. here we have an election, a ballot box. if you say ballot box produces a dictator, that would be unjust, unfair to the ballot box process and to those who cast their ballots in that box. >> reporter: and this was a big defeat for the opposition parties here in turkey. they ran one of their best campaigns ever, despite winning in big urban centers like here in ankara. they came up short. they insist there were irregularities durin...

Unfair to the ballot box process and to those who cast their ballots in that box. >> reporter: president erdogan, this was a big defeat for the opposition parties here in turkey. they ran one of their best campaigns ever it has to be said. despite winning in the big urban centers like here in ankara they still came up short. they insist not only were they -- >> okay. we're having technical difficulties with becky there about president erdogan's win there on that referendum. we got the picture. president erdogan, concentrating power in his lap at this point with that referendum. he's saying it'...