# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahmud-baksi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:22:31.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahmud-baksi"
name: "Mahmud Baksi"
slug: "mahmud-baksi"
description: "Mahmud Baksi, was a Kurdish writer and journalist. He was born in the village of Suphî in the Batman Province of southeastern 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 and advocating for an independent Kurdistan. In 1970, he fled to Germany and later to Sweden where he stayed until his death. He continued writing several works on Kurdish history. 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."
tagline: "Kurdish-Swedish writer and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1944-09-16"
deathDate: "2000-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             0.02570694087403599
  historical:           7.880706666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Baksiy"
    title: "Mahmud Baksiy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "ماهمود باكسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmut_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmut Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmud Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmut_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmut Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehm%C3%BBd_Baks%C3%AE"
    title: "Mehmûd Baksî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmut_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmut Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmut_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmut Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmut_Baksi"
    title: "Mahmut Baksi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q609863"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump