Hayatın Sesi TV was a Turkish nationwide TV channel established in 2007.Hurriyet, 13 June 2013, RTÜK'ten sürpriz kapatma kararı It is one of the Turkish channels which gave extensive live coverage of the 2013 protests in Turkey;evrensel.net, 3 June 2013, Hayat TV'nin kesintisiz yayını sürüyor one of its reporters, Ismail Afacan, was injured by a water cannon.The Guardian, 6 June 2013, Press freedom groups condemn Turkish police violence against journalists
On 13 June 2013 the state media regulator RTÜK ordered Türksat to stop broadcasting Hayatın Sesi TV's signal, claiming it lacked a license. This followed a recent change in the rules requiring broadcasters to have an RTÜK license. It later acknowledged that Hayat had an open application for a license,Mustafa Kara, 13 June 2013, An open letter from the Turkish Hayat TV, to be closed down because it broadcast Taksim Hurriyet Daily News, 13 June 2013, Turkey’s TV watchdog demands closure of Hayat TV, before acknowledging license application and cancelled the order to Turksat.Radikal, 14 June 2013, RTÜK, Hayat TV hakkındaki kapatma kararını geri çekti
It was shut down under the emergency statutory decree issued in the aftermath of the 15 July failed coup d'état, alongside 11 other television and 11 radio stations, on 29 September 2016 when police raided the television station's headquarters in Istanbul.Police raid TV station over ‘terror propaganda,’ cut broadcast
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