When does a democratically elected government ban labor strikes? Which factors may influence the post-strike ban responses of striking unions? Students of labor politics in the developing world have not reached a consensus on whether repression of organized labor is a prerequisite for economic development in the Global South. Benefiting from a novel labor strike dataset, this paper provides a fuzzy-set QCA analysis of strike bans and post-strike ban activism in Turkey after 2015. I argue that the current government issues strike bans when a small but non-collaborative union leads a strike in times of economic stability. Additionally, strike bans are used in AKP stronghold cities if the striking union is not large in membership. Moreover, I suggest that these conditions also shape the emergence of post-strike ban activism'. this research helps us better understand more subtle forms of labor repression. Keywords: strike ban, post-strike ban activism, Turkey, labor, fsQCA