Erdogan Seeks Election Mandate to Change Turkey’s Constitution

Turkey will vote today to decide whether Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should get a mandate to reshape the secular constitution amid an economic boom that contrasts with upheavals to the east and west.

Voting stations open at 7 a.m. in rural eastern Turkey and an hour later in Istanbul and elsewhere in the predominantly Muslim country of 73.7 million people. About 50 million citizens are registered to vote, and they will elect 550 deputies to the parliament in Ankara.