Crackdown in Turkey after coup attempt

Artists, newspaper cartoonists and cultural figures are among the 35,000 people who have been detained in Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogans crackdown after the failed military coup in July. A further 82,000 people, including journalists and bureaucrats, have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs.Onur Erem, a Turkish journalist whose partner, the artist and writer Zehra Dogan, has been imprisoned for the past month, says that artists are being persecuted. Prosecutors have reportedly