Based on a systematic content analysis of newspapers and interviews with the militants of the decade, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a period of intense and violent phase of protest in the 1970s in Turkey, 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 the development of the wave of protest and the general political structure in Turkey at the time, thus providing new insights into Turkish socio-political culture. Analysing the emergence and dynamics of a violent phase of contention and discussing the more recent Gezi Park protests, the book brings together scholarship on social movements, Turkish politics and regime change.