President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday that a "yes" vote will initiate a new era of development and the rise of Turkey during an inauguration ceremony in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province. "Don't let anyone come between you and your state. Did we not initiate the reconciliation process? But they did not understand. They exploded bombs and dug ditches. For this reason, April 16 will be a jumping period for a more modern Turkey," Erdoğan said, underlining that the PKK terror group has done a lot of damage to the social, political, and economic life in the southeastern region. The president also said PKK and FETÖ terrorists want a "no" vote as they do not want the country to develop further.Meanwhile, the current parliamentarian system produces problems that frequently pushes the governing apparatus into deadlock and crisis, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said yesterday during a rally for the upcoming April 16 referendum in the western Edirne province."This system produces problems at times. With the new 18-article system, we will change the current governmental system to a presidential system. In the current system, both the prime minister and the president are powerful. Normally, in parliamentarian systems presidents are symbolic. As such, it becomes a problem when there are two heads. It is time consuming," Yıldırım said.Currently both the prime minister and the president are elected by the people, as such government proposes that the changes will eliminate the race for power, enabling the decision-making process to function in a speedier manner.Yıldırım added that the current system acts as a speed bump for the country's development. "Do not forget the June 7 [election results]. No party was able to form a government. We had to hold early elections after five and a half months."Prime Minister Yıldırım also added that the Turkey has suffered from short-lived governments, saying "In the U.K. in 67 years they have had 15 governments, in Germany they have had 24 governments, in the U.S. 17 governments have been formed so far. In Turkey, in 67 years, 47 governments have been formed."In Turkey, 55.3 million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots on April 16 to vote on a constitutional amendment referendum that may see Turkey shift to a presidential system.The constitutional changes have been discussed ever since Erdoğan was elected president in August 2014. The 18-article bill was passed by Parliament in January, with 339 votes in favor of the bill, nine more than needed to take the proposal to a referendum.The reforms would abolish the post of the prime minister and the president would also be allowed to keep his ties to a political party.Other changes would see the minimum age for parliamentary candidates reduced to 18 while increasing the number of deputies to 600.Under the proposed new constitution, simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections would be held in November 2019 and the president-elect would serve for a five-year term.