Introducing the Turkey Protest, Repression, and Pro-Government Rally Dataset (TPRPGRD)

The repression-protest nexus in authoritarian regimes has attracted scholarly attention of contention scholars for a long time. However, studies have generally overlooked pro-government actors’ role contentious dynamics. This article introduces an original event dataset on protests, repression, and rallies Turkey under the rule Justice Development Party during period which authoritarianism increased intensity. Using protest analysis, this includes actions governments, actors, dissidents hand-coded from two newspapers between 1 January 2013, 31 December 2016. enables researchers to study (PGRs), anti-government state heightened Turkey.