The protests at Gezi Park began when a group of environmentalists reacted to the destruction of one of the last green areas in Taksim by peacefully occupying the Park. The AKP government wanted to build a shopping mall where Gezi park was. The defiance of the environmentalist received excessive police brutality. In short what began as an environmentalists occupation of the park turned into a massive country-wide movement against the government. This result in the excessive use of violence by the police and the aggressive rhetoric used by the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, towards the protesters. This thesis aims to answer the following question: why the Gezi Park movement was unable, despite accomplishing the first two stages of social movement development, “emergence” and “coalescence”, to complete the third stage of “bureaucratization”. In order to be able to answer this question a deeper look at the nature of the Gezi Park protests will be done and most importantly who was there and their ideological similarities and differences.