Career
On October 7, 2010, Gül became the first First Lady to address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on issues faced by children and women. Gül has also publicly spoken out against the imposition of the head scarf in Islamic countries upon young females who cannot make judgment for themselves. After seven years, on August 28, 2014, she left her office as first lady when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became president