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Istanbul: Support for Turkey's ruling AK Party has fallen following a prosecutor's bid to seek the closure of the party for alleged Islamist activities, a poll showed on Friday.
Turkey has been in political crisis since a chief prosecutor asked the Constitutional Court last month to shut down the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
A survey by A&G Research and published in liberal daily Radikal, showed that support for the AK Party stood at 34.4 per cent compared with 47 per cent in July.
Turkey's top court agreed last week to take up the case, which also seeks to ban 71 officials, including Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the president, from politics for five years.
Erdogan said on Thursday he would not rule out changing the constitution, which dates from an era of military rule, to stop his party from being closed down.
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