Tunis: Difference between revisions

| leader_name = [[Souad_Abderrahim|Souad Abderrahim]]

On 18 March 2015, [[Bardo National Museum attack|two gunmen attacked]] the [[Bardo National Museum (Tunis)|Bardo National Museum]] and held hostages.<ref name="reuters">{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tunisia-security-idUSKBN0ME18E20150318|title=Gunmen storm Tunisian museum, kill 17 foreign tourists|author=|date=18 March 2017|publisher=|via=Reuters}}</ref> Twenty civilians and one policeman were killed in the attack, while around 50 others were injured.<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news|title=The Latest: French President Mourns Tunisia Victims|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/18/world/middleeast/ap-ml-tunisia-attack-the-latest.html|accessdate=19 March 2015|work=nytimes.com|date=18 March 2015}}</ref> Five Japanese, two Colombians, and visitors from Italy, Poland, and Spain were among the dead. Both gunmen were killed by Tunisian police. The incident has been treated as a [[terrorist attack]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/18/tourists-killed-in-tunisia-museum-assault.html|title=19 killed in Tunisia attack; hostage drama ends with deaths of gunmen|author=|date=|work=aljazeera.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Marszal|first1=Andrew|title=Gunmen 'take hostages' in attack on Tunisia parliament. |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/11479898/Gunmen-take-hostages-in-attack-on-Tunisia-parliament.html|accessdate=18 March 2015|work=The Telegraph|date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

Tunis has been the capital of Tunisia since 1159. Under Articles 43 and 24 of the [[Constitution of Tunisia|Constitution of 1959]],<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.jurisitetunisie.com/tunisie/codes/constitution/menup.html Constitution de la République tunisienne (Jurisite Tunisie)]</ref> Tunis and its suburbs host the national institutions: the Presidential Palace, which is known as [[Carthage Palace]], residence of the [[President of Tunisia]], the [[Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia|Chamber of Deputies]] and the [[Chamber of Advisors]] and parliament, the Constitutional Council and the main judicial institutions and public bodies. The revised [[Tunisian Constitution of 2014]] similarly provides that the National Assembly is to sit in Tunis (article 51) and that the Presidency is based there (article 73).<ref>http://www.legislation.tn/sites/default/files/news/constitution-b-a-t.pdf accessed 10/6/2017</ref>