Turkey witnessed a period of intense street protests and clashes that rose and fell from the late 1960s until the coup d’état held in September 1980, with student protests entering a new and extremely violent phase in the mid-1970s. Based on a systematic content analysis of newspapers and interviews with the militants of the decade, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the period as a wave or cycle of protest by focusing on the actors, forms of actions used and the goals of protest events. In this first major, academic study of the period, the author examines the relationship between...