Support for Merkel drops over handling of refugee crisis


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  • Friday, 04 Sep 2015

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks during a meeting at his ruling AK Party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, August 28, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity has dropped abruptly over her handling of Europe's refugee crisis, a poll for ARD television network showed.

Merkel, who was criticised for being slow to condemn violent protests against refugees in an east German town last month, saw her approval ratings slip by 4 points from the previous month to 63 percent in the Infratest Dimap survey.

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