Address by H.E. Abdullah Gül to the Founding Assembly of Tunisia
http://www.tccb.gov.tr/speeches-statements/344/82302/addreb-by-he-abdullah-gul-to-the-founding-abembly-of-tunisia.html Mr. Speaker, Distinguished Deputies, Dear Guests, I am honored to address this assembly where the national will of the Tunisian people with whom we have deep-rooted amity and friendship is truly displayed. It is a great privilege for me to address you who are building the future of Tunisia, which ignited the fuse of the Arab Spring and the Arab Awakening. I would like to evince my excitement and pride on behalf of myself and my nation to deliver a speech, as the first foreign head of state, to the representatives of Tunisia. I am excited as you are a torch that will illuminate the future of both Tunisia and the whole of the Arab world. I am excited as this assembly is an edifice of democracy to which all our sister countries, which have struggled and are struggling for freedom, rights, justice and honor at all costs, turn their faces. I am excited as you are not writi