 In addition French businesspeople and vocational workers used French-language media to get in touch with clients in the empire.French-language journalism was initially centred in Smyrna (now Izmir) but by the 1860s it began shifting towards Constantinople.Many newspapers in non-Muslim minority and foreign languages were produced in Galata, with production in daylight hours and distribution at nighttime; Ottoman authorities did not allow production of the Galata-based newspapers at night.