[1][2] The Gezi Park protests brought Halk TV into the spotlight as one of the few Turkish television channels to broadcast live coverage of the events.

[3][2] Because of this, the Turkish TV regulator RTÜK (Turkish: Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu) imposed a fine on Halk TV for "harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people".

[5] Former Esenyurt Mayor Gürbüz Çapan was linked with Halk TV in 2011.

[6] In May 2013 Halk TV was reprimanded by the media regulator RTÜK for broadcasting a "most watched" video from YouTube which it said was aimed at humiliating PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

[8] On 28 January 2025, the station's chief editor Serhan Asker were detained along with presenter Seda Selek and independent journalist Baris Pehlivan after the station aired a phone conversation between Pehlivn and a court-appointed expert accused of bias against mayors belonging to the opposition Republican People's Party.