5 books
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) was the Turkish founder and first president of the Republic of Türkiye, as well as a military leader, statesman and writer. The Great Speech recounts the National Struggle and the founding of the Republic through documents, political argument and an explanation of decisions made under pressure. The historical title A Speech Delivered by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, President of the Turkish Republic points to the work's origin as an extended public address, while Selected Parts of Speech (Nutuk) offers a narrower route through the same foundational text. His military notebooks and earlier writings reveal a different scale of attention: training, observation, terminology and preparation before the retrospective public narrative. Reading The Great Speech with its documentary apparatus provides the broad arc; the shorter selections then help isolate the relationship between leadership, evidence and civic purpose.
