Mahmud Baksi (Mahmûd Baksî), (16 September 1944 – 19 December 2000), was a Kurdish writer and journalist.
He was born in the village of Suphî[1] in the Batman Province of southeastern Turkey.
He began to publish a newspaper titled Batman Gazetesi in 1967.
Around the same period, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for promoting Kurdish nationalism and advocating for an independent Kurdistan.
He is the uncle of Nalin Pekgul who have been active at the Swedish socialdemocratic party and journalist Kurdo Baksi.