Erdogan’s opposition face intimidation and harassment as they try to stop him in Turkish referendum – Telegraph.co.uk

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The streets of Kadiky, one of Istanbuls most liberal districts, echo with the laughter of young couples, the clink of beer glasses, and a one-word warning: dictatorship.

I dont want to live in a dictatorship. I dont want Sharia law. I dont want to have to wear the head scarf. I dont want my country to become like Iran or Iraq, said Tuana Okay, an 18-year-old student with a purple streak dyed in her hair.

Like many of her fellow Turks, Ms Okay is frightened about the referendum approaching on April 16, when President Recep Tayyip Erdoan is asking his citizens to approve sweeping constitutional changes that would vastly increase his own power.

A disparate coalition of opponents - from Marxist students to renegade nationalists, Kurdish activists to Turkeys once-dominant Republican People's Party (CHP) - are lining up to campaign against the president and in favour of a No vote....

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