[1] Turtiainen was expelled from the Finns Party for posting a tweet perceived as mocking the murder of George Floyd in February 2021.

In the 2023 parliamentary election, he received only 632 votes in the South East Finland constituency, thereby failing to retain his seat in parliament.

[6] January 2020 Finnish newspaper Iltalehti revealed that Turtiainen had used travel expense allowance during his sick leave.

[7] The same month Turtiainen mocked a Finnish police officer on Twitter who filed a report of an offence.

District attorney dropped the charges later, calling Turtiainen's statement to be within limits of acceptable criticism towards authorities despite the use of derogatory wording.

[17] In 2021, Turtiainen expanded his parliamentary group into a full political party, called "Power Belongs to the People".

[20] After the 2023 parliamentary election, Turtiainen and his party secretary Marko Hiltunen were invited to attend the Russian government-organised St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

In December 2015 Turtiainen published a Facebook status saying that "people had taken great personal risks when acting in elimination operations to destroy existing and planned asylum centres".

In September 2018 Turtiainen was sentenced in the district court of Southern Savonia to 60 day-fines for public incitement to crime.

According to Helsingin Sanomat, the district court of Southern Savonia sentenced Turtiainen to fines in March 2010 for assaulting a 14-year-old boy from Juva.

[27] Gometal Oy sold powerlifting equipment, clothing and Power Belongs to the People Party's fan products.