Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday that the people's message was clear after a referendum which will hand President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, and said the vote had ended all arguments.
He was greeted by thousands of supporters at the airport.
However the parliament faction chief of the ruling Justice Development Party (AKP), Mustafa Elitas said Erdogan would his month get an offer to rejoin that party he founded but had to leave when he became president - under the last constitution a supposedly apolitical role.
"Under the state of emergency put in place after the July 2016 failed coup attempt, fundamental freedoms essential to a genuinely democratic process were curtailed", the statement read.
But Erdogan's victory was far tighter than expected, emerging only after several nail-biting hours late Sunday which saw the "No" result dramatically catch up in the later count. But Turkey's two main opposition parties said they would challenge the results.
Three of Turkey's biggest cities - Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir - all voted "No" to the constitutional changes, BBC reported.
Both the CHP and the HDP has vowed to contest substantial chunks of the vote with the YSK.
An unprecedented electoral board decision to accept ballots that didn't bear the official stamp has led to outrage among the opposition.
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But the head of Turkey's electoral body, Sadi Guven, said the unstamped ballot papers had been produced by the High Electoral Board and were valid.
"On referendum day there were no major problems, except in some regions, however we can only regret the absence of civil society observers in polling stations", said Cezar Florin Preda, Head of the delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "And this is not the first time that unstamped ballots have been allowed".
At the headquarters of his party the Turkish Prime Minister said that the vote should not divide the Turkish people and that the country would continue its effort to improve the economy and fight its internal and external enemies.
"With what happened yesterday, (Turkey's) membership prospects are buried, in practical terms", Kern said.
According to the statement of the OSCE ODIHR and the CoE, "although the Supreme Board of Elections (SBE) adopted regulations and instructions to address some aspects of the process, the legal framework, which is focused on elections, remained inadequate for the holding of a genuinely democratic referendum". Macron, battling to hang on to his advantage before the first round of France's presidential election on Sunday, said he sees little chance of Turkey's candidacy succeeding in any case.
Global election observers have slammed the handling of Turkey's constitutional referendum.
The German foreign minister, talking to reporters in Tirana, Albania, said that Brussels should intensively work to find channels of dialogue on "how to impact so that Turkey remains a democratic country".
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