Oriental & Middle East Radio
This is the station that did not exist here until recently, and the reason is worth admitting: searching for it in English barely finds it. Ask YouTube in Turkish or Arabic and a whole broadcasting culture opens up — canlı radyo running all day, with audiences that never show up in an English-language search at all.
Why It Works
Twelve stations covering music that most Western radio never touches: Türkçe pop and remix stations for driving, arabesk and slow for the small hours, Anatolian rock — Barış Manço and Erkin Koray, psychedelic guitar over folk melodies — and Arabic chillout and deep house. For anyone from the region it is a direct line home; for everyone else it is the fastest way into music you would otherwise never be handed.
Why Mixtuby
Twelve live streams, one per channel, found by searching in the languages the stations actually broadcast in. Nothing here is a compilation video pretending to be radio: every stream was checked against YouTube's live status. One tap plays, no account.
History
Turkish radio began with TRT's state monopoly, and private stations only arrived in the 1990s — after which they multiplied fast, and arabesk, which state radio had spent decades keeping off the air as insufficiently modern, became one of the most-played formats in the country. Arabic-language radio took a different road, built around powerful cross-border broadcasters whose signals reached listeners no single government controlled.
Legacy & Influence
YouTube removed the licence and the transmitter both. A single person with an encoder now runs a Türkçe pop station with a few hundred listeners, an Anatolian rock stream, a slow-music station for the small hours — formats a commercial station would never justify. The diaspora audience that used to depend on shortwave and satellite now just opens a browser tab.
Perfect For
How to Listen
Start with a Türkçe pop station if you know nothing about the music — it is the front door.
The Anatolian rock streams are the surprise: 1970s psychedelia with a saz in it.
Arabesk suits late nights and long drives, which is what it was written for.
Titles are in Turkish or Arabic. The channel name usually tells you the format.
Leave it running — half the point is hearing something you would not have chosen.
Oriental & Middle East Radio — FAQ
What is on the Oriental & Middle East station?
Twelve live streams: Türkçe pop and remix radio, arabesk and fantezi, slow Turkish music, Anatolian rock (Barış Manço, Erkin Koray and the psychedelic Anadolu rock scene), acoustic Turkish radio, Arabic chillout and deep house, and ethno world music.
Are there Arabic-language stations?
Yes, including Arabic chillout and deep house streams. The station leans Turkish overall, because that is where the largest number of genuinely continuous 24/7 music streams are on YouTube right now.
Why was this station added only recently?
Because an English-language search does not find it. Searching in Turkish and Arabic turned up dozens of live stations that were invisible before — the same lesson the Romanian station taught earlier.
Do I need an account?
No. Pick a station, press play. Free, no sign-up.
Is this real radio or compilation videos?
Real livestreams. Every stream was verified as live and embeddable against YouTube's API before it went on the shelf, and the player shows a red LIVE badge.
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