Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, Midnight In London and 2 00am in the morning across turkey, where a referendum has granted the president a wide range of new powers, but with the narrowest of majorities, just 51. 3 of the vote. It means the role of Prime Minister will be scrapped, and turkey will become a president ial democracy. But opponents say it wont have the checks and balances of similar systems around the world, and are disputing the results, alleging widespread irregularities. From istanbul, our World Affairs Editorjohn Simpson sent this report. Tonight, the victors were out in force, celebrating as though they had won by a big majority, instead of by a whisker. In fact, here in istanbul, and in turkeys two other largest cities, izmir and ankara, the capital, the no campaign seems actually to have won. The worry is that the result has been too narrow to settle anything for good. The bangs are notjust fireworks. Those are guns being fired. The fact is that there is a bi
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