Yousif Muhammed Sadiq

Yousif Muhammed Sadiq (Kurdish: یووسف محەممەد سادق, born 14 July 1978) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and academic. A member of the Gorran Movement, he served as Speaker of the Kurdistan Region Parliament from 2014 to 2019, representing Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He later served as a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq from 2018 to 2021.

Sadiq was born in Khurmal, in the Halabja Governorate.

Sadiq holds a Master's degree in International Politics from Nahrain University (2007) and a PhD in Philosophy of Political Science with a thesis titled "Factors Affecting the Political Future of the Kurdistan Region-Iraq".

Sadiq served as Head of the Department of Political Science at the College of Political and Social Sciences, University of Sulaymaniyah from 2008 to 2010.

Before becoming Speaker of Parliament, Sadiq was involved in various political and civil activities:

On April 29, 2014, Sadiq was elected Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament, a position he held until February 2019.

On May 26, 2015, as Speaker of the Parliament, Sadiq met with a delegation from the Turkmen faction in the Kirkuk Provincial Council. During this meeting, he stated: "Kirkuk is a Kurdish city, but it has its own characteristics and consists of various ethnic components besides Kurds. We hope that the people of Kirkuk preserve this diversity of population and components."

He further explained that while drafting the constitution of Kurdistan, "Kirkuk and other disputed areas are referred to as a main part of the Kurdistan Region, but we take into account the specifics of these areas. We will not impose any decision on Kirkuk because there are other ethnicities and components in these areas besides Kurds. When these areas return to the Kurdistan Region, all rights of these components will be protected by law in the constitution."