The Speech (Nutuk), which relates events in the Turkish War of Independence, the foundation of the Turkish Republic and the carrying out of revolutionary reforms, is a work that the founder of the Turkish Republic Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk himself wrote and left to history. This masterpiece which came from Ataturk's own pen, was given the title The Speech due to its being based upon a thirty-six-and a half hourspeech delivered by Ataturk over six days at the Second General Assembly of the Republican People's Party in Ankara between 15-20 November 1927. Later, this valuable documentary source was given the title The Great Speech.