Meanwhile, Turkish police detained 38 people in Istanbul over peaceful street protests that took place after Sunday's referendum on expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers, opposition newspaper Birgun and activists reported.
Binali Yildirim said Wednesday the electoral board would rule on the main opposition Republican People's Party's request for the referendum's annulment.
Opposition parties had called on the electoral board to annul Sunday's referendum, which was narrowly won by the "Yes" camp, because unstamped ballot papers were included in the vote count.
He said that "the path to seek rights" should be limited to the courts.
A narrow majority of voters in Sunday's referendum backed the 18-article constitutional reform package, which will transform the country's parliamentary system into a powerful executive presidency. He added that "we expect the main opposition party's leader to act more responsibly".
President Trump plans to meet next month with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Turkish and USA officials, just weeks after Erdogan claimed victory in a referendum that vastly increased his powers and has been questioned by the opposition and global observers.
Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) rejected appeals to annul the referendum results after a meeting on Wednesday.
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Landrieu argued that "this is not about politics, blame or retaliation". "The monuments are an aberration", he said. The monument honors the president of the Confederate States of America, who died in New Orleans in 1889.
The opposition has complained about an unlevel playing field before the referendum and irregularities during the vote, claims echoed by election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and by the European Union.
The stamps were required to avoid "ballot-stuffing" - where extra votes are cast illegally to manipulate results - and unstamped ballots had been dismissed as invalid in earlier votes. "From the German government's point of view, Turkey must ... clear up the questions that have been raised".
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlet Cavusoglu on Wednesday accused the OSCE of bias and deliberately putting errors into its report.
"We look to the government of Turkey to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all its citizens", the statement said.
A failed coup a year ago allowed him to turn up the heat on opposition voices in the run-up to Sunday's vote.
Unlike European leaders who expressed reservations about the referendum, US President Donald Trump telephoned Erdogan to congratulate him on his victory. Cavusoglu said that he and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would finalize the date according to the two presidents' schedules.
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