Kurdo Baksi

Necip Kurdo Sirka Baksi, (born 5 June 1965 in Batman, Turkey) is a Swedish social commentator and author. Baksi is of Kurdish descent and brother of Nalin Pekgul, and nephew of Mahmut 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.
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" (Without immigrants Sweden stops", with the purpose to mark the immigrants importance in the Swedish society. Baksi is also an active debater, and lecturer in questions about immigraiton, racism, and opinion-making for the creation of a Kurdish state.