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ANKARA, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned Swiss counselor in Ankara on Saturday over PKK sympathizers' rally targeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Bern, state-run Anadolu Agency cited an anonymous official.
The Swiss ambassador, Walter Haffner, will be called to the ministry on Sunday, the official said, as he was out of the city.
According to reports from Switzerland, more than 200 people demonstrated in front of the federal parliament building in Bern on Saturday, holding banners and flags against Erdogan and promote a "No" vote for the April referendum.
The Turkish referendum, to be held on April 16, will introduce several constitutional amendments and switch parliamentary system to presidential system.
The reforms would hand wide-ranging executive powers to the president and the post of prime minister would be abolished.
The president would also be allowed to retain ties to a political party.
Other changes include reducing the minimum age for parliamentary candidates to 18 and raising the number of deputies to 600.
Simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections for a five-year term would be held in November 2019 under the new constitution, the report said.
Founded in 1978, the PKK has waged bloody campaign against the Turkish state for decades, and was officially listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the EU.
