The survey, published in the popular Milliyet daily, found that 34.9 percent believe that granting the Kurdish minority the right to education in its mother tongue would be a "right" way to resolve the conflict, while the remaining respondants said it would be "wrong."

Another 36.3 percent backed Kurdish-language broadcasts.

About 39 percent expressed support for removing a 10-percent national threshold for parties to enter parliament, which has kept Kurdish political movements from obtaining parliamentary representation.

More people -- 42.4 percent -- were in favour of extending state support to preserve Kurdish culture and traditions and 48.3 percent said the powers of local administrations should be broadened.

A solid majority of 80.3 percent said "eradicating terrorism" is the way to end the conflict, which has claimed more than 37,000 lives since the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, took up arms in 1984.

The survey was conducted by the Konda polling company among 48,000 people across Turkey in October.

Under European Union pressure, Turkey has in recent years broadened Kurdish cultural freedoms, legalising the teaching of the Kurdish language at private courses and allowing limited Kurdish-language television and radio broadcasts.

But Kurdish activists say the reforms are inadequate and have called notably for lowering the 10-percent election threshold and granting general amnesty for PKK militants to encourage them to end their armed campaign in the southeast.

Other parts of the poll, published in Milliyet this week, projected the number of Kurds in Turkey at 11.5 million, or 15.7 percent of the 73-million-strong population.