Nutuk (The Great Speech)

Nutuk is the speech in which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, on 15–20 October 1927, at a congress attended by Turkish and foreign journalists, summarised the work of himself and his comrades-in-arms. Over six days, from 15 to 20 October 1927, Atatürk spoke in the assembly hall of the Grand National Assembly in two sessions a day, morning and afternoon; reading the whole of Nutuk took 36 hours and 31 minutes.

The speech was published by the Ministry of Culture as a book of about 900 pages. Nutuk is the Republic of Turkey’s most fundamental “official historical source” on that period.

For the text: http://ekitap.kulturturizm.gov.tr/TR,81464/nutuk.html