Mahmud Baksi (Mahmûd Baksî), (16 September 1944 – 19 December 2000), was a

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *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 ...

writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in the

Batman Province Batman Province ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Êlihê) is a province in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey. It was created in May 1990 with the Law No. 3647 taking some parts from the eastern Province of Siirt and some from the southern Province o ...

of Turkey. He began to publish a newspaper titled ''Batman Gazetesi'' in 1967. He became the head of the Batman branch of the ''Workers Party of Turkey''. From 1968 to 1970, he became involved in the

labor union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

movement of Turkey. Around the same period, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for promoting Kurdish nationalism. In 1970, he fled to Germany and later to Sweden where he stayed until his death. He is buried in

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...

. He is the uncle of

Nalin Pekgul Nalin Pekgul (née Baksi, born 30 April 1967) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, nurse and former parliamentarian. She was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Swedish Parliament. Life Pekgul was born in Batman, Turkey, but migrated to ...

who have been active at the Swedish socialdemocratic party and journalist

Kurdo Baksi Necip ''Kurdo'' Sirka Baksi, (born 5 June 1965) is a Swedish social commentator and author. Baksi was born in Batman, Turkey, of Kurdish descent. He is the brother of Nalin Pekgul and the nephew of Mahmud Baksi. He came to Sweden in 1980 along ...

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