It did not occur to me until after the completion of my field work that these and other similar comments scattered through my interviews with Yo?urtçu Forum activists were in fact words of caution that the euphoric anticipation of a truly egalitarian society blinded many – including myself – to the dilemmas with which the whole process was marred. In this chapter, I interrogate the ambiguities and internal contradictions of the Gezi Episode. Questions such as ‘how did even the most ardent supporters of prefigurative, radical democratic, assembly-style politics in forums, solidarities and squat houses end up prioritising conventional mechanisms of representative democracy that best functioned at the national level?