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 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 to survive by a co-operation between the magazines which merged and became Svartvitt med Expo.[1] Svarvitt was cancelled in 2002/2003 and the magazine changed name to Expo again.[2]
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.[3]
Baksi is a commentator and has written about topics such as Turkey, the Gray Wolves, Armenian Genocide and armed conflict on Nagorno-Karabach.[4][5][6]
Two of Baksi's books have been translated into English. "Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm" (2010) covers Stieg Larsson's career as a journalist[7] and "Stieg Larsson : The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : a memoir of a friendship" (2011) focuses om Larsson's Millennium series of fiction novels.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tidskriften Expo". Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ Men hallå Kurdo Baksi Archived 2009-08-14 at the Wayback Machine journalisten.se Retrieved 22 January 2016
- ^ "Men glöm vårt Stor-Kurdistan". Expressen. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ "DEBATT: Erdogans maktplaner hotar hela vår värld". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 12 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ Baksi, Kurdo (2016-04-15). "Debattinlägg: "Kaplans intervju fick mig att hoppa ur tv-soffan"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ Baksi, Kurdo (2022-01-17). "Efter 15 år: Vem beställde mordet på Hrant Dink?". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ Baksi, Kurdo (2010). Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm. Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1-60598-174-1.
- ^ Baksi, Kurdo (June 21, 2011). Stieg Larsson : The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : a memoir of a friendship. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1-4516-4709-9.
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