Inside Turkey's Expat Arab TV Stations

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 30: People work in the broadcast control booth during a live broadcast of a news show at Belqees TV of Yemen on October 30, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. Started by Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Belqees TV opened in Istanbul in 2014 after their studio in Sana was seized by members of the Houthis. The station employs some one hundred and thirty five people from various nationalities many whom have been forced to flee their countries due to war or the political situation. The station strives to deliver independent reporting and broadcasts news not only inside Yemen but globally. Over the years Turkey has become a hotspot for Arab journalists and broadcasters and now hosts more than 15 tv channels run by independent or opponent media to various governments around the middle east region. For many broadcasters who have been forced to leave their countries due to the political situation, violence, war, repression or lack of press freedom, Turkey has given them a safe place to report from and to be able to work relatively freely and give an independent or opposition view of the important issues not being reported or not able to be reported from within their countries. However the recent murder of prominent Washington Post journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after entering for a routine document visit has created a wave of uneasiness amongst the community of journalists, politicians, activists and students working to report information about the situations in their countries. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)