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Göksenin Köksal

Turkish basketball player (born 1991)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ5626508 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hüseyin Göksenin Köksal (born 8 January 1991) is a Turkish professional basketball player who last played for Bursaspor Basketbol of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He is a 1.95 m (6'4¾") tall swingman.

Professional career

Galatasaray

Köksal began his pro career in 2010, with the Turkish club Galatasaray. With Galatasaray, he won the Turkish President's Cup (Turkish Supercup) in 2011, and the Turkish Super League championship of the 2012–13 season.

Loan to Darüşşafaka

He then moved to the Turkish club Darüşşafaka, on loan from Galatasaray, for the 2014–15 season.

Return to Galatasaray

He returned to Galatasaray for the 2015–16 season. With Galatasaray, he won the EuroCup 2015–16 season's championship. Köksal re-signed with the team on 10 August 2021.

It was announced that he parted ways with Galatasaray, for which he played for 15 years and was the team captain for 9 years, on June 13, 2025.

Bursaspor

On July 24, 2025, he signed with Bursaspor Basketbol of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Göksenin Köksal” is turkish basketball player (born 1991). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Göksenin, Köksal and Turkish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-01-08. For this dossier, Göksenin, Köksal and Turkish is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5626508. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Göksenin Köksal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.