ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party has seen its popularity slip since a corruption scandal erupted last month but remains comfortably ahead of the main opposition, the first major poll published since the affair showed on Thursday.
The survey by SONAR research, one of Turkey's main pollsters, put support for the AK Party at 42.3 percent, two percentage points below its previous poll last August and well below the 50 percent the party won at the last election in 2011.
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