SadikKöksal

Born in 1968 in Emirdağ, Turkey, Sadik Köksal spent his childhood in Marche-en-Famenne before settling in Schaerbeek. A tourism graduate of ISALT, he worked for Turkish Airlines from 1994 to 2007, notably as station manager.

Elected municipal councillor in Schaerbeek in 2006, he serves as group leader there. Alderman from 2012, responsible for Cleanliness, Culture and Libraries, in 2018 he achieved the third-best score on the mayor's list and became alderman for Population, Civil Status, Religious Affairs and International Relations.

In 2019 he entered the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, elected as an independent liberal candidate on the DéFI list, before stepping down as alderman in 2020. In June 2023 he joined the Mouvement Réformateur, of which he had been a member before the split between the MR and the FDF. He was re-elected under its banner in June 2024.

He is today a Member of the Brussels Parliament, where he also sits in the French-speaking Brussels Parliament, and a municipal councillor in Schaerbeek.