Challenges of conducting survey research related to a social protest movement: Lessons learned from a study of Gezi protests involving the Turkish diaspora in three European countries KU Leuven
Social movement research raises many complicated methodological issues for scholars. This study systematically explains the methodological quandaries, decisions, and outcomes researchers confronted in a study of one such social movement, the Gezi Park protests. In the summer of 2013 and the months that followed, anti-government protestors in Turkey were supported by ethnic Turkish minorities living in Europe. These protestors took to the ...