The Center of Social and Political Researches (SAMER) announced the results of a survey conducted in Diyarbakýr.

The survey, called “What Kurds would demand in case of a referendum” revealed that 87 percent of survey participants asked for a referendum to determine their way of governance.

49,2 percent of participants asked for ‘democratic autonomy’, 19,2 percent ‘independence’, 5,4 percent ‘federation’, 7,1 percent ‘decentralized government’ which gives broad authority to municipalities and 3,4 percent chose ‘none’.

According to the news reported by daily paper Radikal, the SAMER survey was participated by women by 40 percent and by 60 percent by men. 30 percent of participants consisted of high school graduates, 24 percent of elementary school graduates and 15 percent of primary school graduates.

The survey question whether a referendum should be held for the demands of Kurds was answered yes by 87 percent, while two percent didn’t answer the question.

The question whether Kurdish should be an official language in Turkey was answered yes by 83 percent of survey participants eight percent of whom didn’t give an answer the question.

45 percent of participants said that they had heard about Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arýnç’s statement “Kurdish isn’t a language of civilization”. Among them 43 percent commented the statement as “wrong and inappropriate expression”, while 18 percent said they “condemned” this statement.

As to the question what kind of an effect KCK operations had on the Kurdish issue, 43.4 percent of participants answered “negative”, 24,2 percent “very negative”, 6,4 percent “ineffective” and 2.7 percent said “positive effect”.

66 percent of survey participants evaluated the hunger strike of BDP deputies and mayors as “right”, nine percent as “unnecessary” and nine percent as “ineffective”.

The question on the importance of Kurdish National Conference for the future of Kurds was answered by 79 percent as “very important”.