Özel's New Party leads the AKP with 34.8 percent in a new poll

The July survey by Ank-Ar, reported by the Birgün daily on Tuesday, puts the New Party on 34.8 percent against the AKP's 29.4. Only the pro-Kurdish DEM Party also clears the 7 percent threshold, on 7.6 percent, while the CHP falls to 4 percent. Ank-Ar interviewed 2,004 people face to face in 28 provinces, less than three weeks after Özel and 90 other deputies left the CHP.

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