Mahmud Baksi
Encyclopedia
Mahmud Baksi (1944–2000), was a Kurdish
writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in Batman Province
in 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 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
. He is the uncle of Nalin Pekgul
who have been active at the Swedish socialdemocratic party and journalist Kurdo Baksi.
communist. He focused on writing during his exile in Sweden and wrote 22 books. He has written books in three languages, Kurdish
, Turkish
and Swedish
.
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in Batman Province
Batman Province
Batman Province is a Turkish province southeast of Anatolia. The province's population exceeded 500,000 in 2010.The province is important because of its reserves and production of oil which was started in the 1940s. There is a 494-km long oil pipeline from Batman to the Turkish port of İskenderun....
in 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 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
Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...
. He is the uncle of Nalin Pekgul
Nalin Pekgul
Nalin Pekgul is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She was born in Batman, in Turkey. Between 1994-2002, Pekgül was a member of the Swedish parliament. She was now chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden 2003-2011....
who have been active at the Swedish socialdemocratic party and journalist Kurdo Baksi.
Works
His first book was published in 1970, titled Sadi Akkiliç Davası, about the an imprisoned TurkishTurkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
communist. He focused on writing during his exile in Sweden and wrote 22 books. He has written books in three languages, Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
, Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
and Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
.
Books
- Mezra Botan, 1969.
- Zarokên Îhsan, 1978.
- Hêlîn, Immigrant-institutet, 1984. (in Swedish)
- Gundikê Dono, Orfeus Publishers, 1988.
- Serhildana Mala Eliyê Ûnis, Azadiya Welat Publishers, 2001.