Necip ''Kurdo'' Sirka Baksi, (born 5 June 1965) is a Swedish social commentator and author. Baksi was born in
Batman, Turkey, of
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
descent. He is the brother of
Nalin Pekgul and the nephew of
Mahmud Baksi. He came to Sweden in 1980 along with his parents and four siblings.
Kurdo Baksi founded the anti-racist magazine ''Svartvitt'' in 1987. During a five-year period between 1998 and 2002, he helped ''Svartvitt'' and the anti-racist magazine ''
Expo
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Events and venues
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* Singapore Expo, convention and exposition venue
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'' to survive by a co-operation between the magazines which merged and became ''Svartvitt med Expo''. ''Svarvitt'' was cancelled in 2002/2003 and the magazine changed name to ''Expo'' again.
In 1992, he organized a big anti-racist manifestation in Sweden under the name "
Utan invandrare stannar Sverige" (meaning "Without immigrants Sweden stops"), with the purpose of marking immigrants' importance in the Swedish society. Baksi is also an active debater, and lecturer in questions about immigration, racism, and opinion-making for the creation of a Kurdish state.
Baksi is a used commentator and wrote several texts about topics such as Turkey, the Gray Wolves, Armenian Genocide and armed conflict on
Nagorno-Karabach.
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Living people
1965 births
Swedish people of Kurdish descent
21st-century Swedish writers
20th-century Swedish writers
Swedish political writers
20th-century Swedish male writers
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