Triumphant Erdogan swats away Western criticism of referendum

By Gulsen Solaker, Tuvan Gumrukcu and Daren Butler
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A defiant Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the West’s “crusader mentality” on Monday after European monitors criticized a referendum in which he won sweeping new powers.
Erdogan, whose narrow victory laid bare the nation’s divisions, told flag-waving supporters that foreign election observers should “know their place” and Turkey did not “see, hear or acknowled