Four and a half hours of discussion were needed to approve the modifications proposed. The session of the Assembly opened at 6 o'clock in the evening. Some unimportant katters were dealt with, while awaiting the report of the commision on the Constitutional Law, which was favourable; only one phrase was added: "The religion of the Turkish state is Islam." Ismet Paşa, who was acting as President of the Assembly, proposed the vote to amend the lawi and this was carried.
Thus the Republic was born in Turkey on the 29th of October 1923. The official name of the state was to be: "The Republic of Turkey."
The Gazi gathered around his table in Çankaya Fethi, Ismet and some genereals and Members of Parliament whom he knew well. In the course of that memorable dinner their host remarked: "Tomorrow we will proclaim a republic."