Despite their crucial role in the country’s political history, protests have not been normalised as a form of participation in Turkey. Neither state authorities nor much of the public consider or treat protests as legitimate and acceptable means of political expression or claims-making. This chapter examines the factors and historical circumstances contributing to this non-normalisation by presenting a brief (and thus unavoidably incomplete) account of the long and complex history of protests in Turkey. It treats this non-normalisation as a facet of one of the republic’s unresolved problems: its failure to constitute a form of democratic, civic citizenship. The chapter argues that protests are not seen as legitimate means of participation in contemporary Turkey due not only to their conflictual and violent history in the twentieth century but also to the boundaries of desirable behaviour for citizens—that is, to how an acceptable citizen is imagined. Within this history, this chapter highlights the Gezi protests of 2013 as a critical moment that revealed the possibility of democratic politics challenging dominant notions of citizenship and participation in Turkey. The chapter concludes with a brief assessment of the discourse on protests under the AKP regime’s populist authoritarian rule, which builds on historical legacies associating protests with illegality and anarchy.