Hayatın Sesi TV was a Turkish nationwide TV channel established in 2007. It is one of the Turkish channels which gave extensive live coverage of the 2013 protests in Turkey; one of its reporters, Ismail Afacan, was injured by a water cannon. On 13 June 2013 the state media regulator

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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, and cancelled the order to Turksat. It was shut down under the emergency statutory decree issued in the

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of the 15 July failed coup d'état, alongside 11 other television and 11 radio stations, on 29 September 2016 when

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raided the television station's headquarters in

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