Im in ankara at the office of the prime minister, Binali Yildirim. In this exclusive interview i asked him whether turkey is becoming more authoritarian after the recent controversial and closely fought referendum. Can the government bring together a divided nation . Prime minister Binali Yildirim, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much you are most welcome to this beautiful country, turkey. Thank you. What is your response to critics who say the recent referendum has turned turkey into a dictatorship, that there will be one party rule and president erdogan will be like a latter day Ottoman Sultan . Alright, so you kind of addressed one aspect of the criticisms, which is that you had somehow rigged the vote, the ak parti had, so that it would be in yourfavour. You said how you refute those allegations. But looking at the substance of what the constitutional changes will bring, the argument is that it will concentrate too much power in the hands of the presidency. That was the finding
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