A protester gestures and chants slogans during a march at the Kadikoy district in Istanbul. Pics/AFP 

Ankara: Turkey's ruling AK Party set out plans on Wednesday for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to gradually take back the party reins, in a sign it would begin implementing changes approved in the referendum despite opposition attempts to annul it. Prime Minister and AKP leader Binali Yildirim said Erdogan can rejoin the party he founded in 2001 once official results of the plebiscite, granting him sweeping powers, are announced. Those results are expected before the end of the month. But he said the AKP would not hold a party congress until 2018, indicating Erdogan would not officially become its leader until then.