By — Marcia Biggs Marcia Biggs Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/6000-detained-turkey-failed-military-coup Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio The Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, detained 6,000 people after this weekend’s failed military coup, including three generals and hundreds of soldiers. On Sunday, tens of thousands marched through the streets of Ankara in a show of support for the Erdogan government. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Listen to this Segment Watch Watch the Full Episode PBS NewsHour from Jul 17, 2016 By — Marcia Biggs Marcia Biggs Marcia Biggs is a freelance journalist, focusing on international conflict and humanitarian crisis. She contributes regularly to The PBS NewsHour, reporting most recently on the crisis in Haiti. With over a decade in the Middle East, her work has highlighted the targeting of doctors in the Syrian civil war, the use of children in armed conflict in Iraq and Syria, as well as various stages of the battle for Mosul and the plight of Yazidi girls who have escaped ISIS captivity. In 2018, she became one of the few television journalists to travel to Yemen, producing a four part series for PBS. A pivot to Latin America then took her to Honduras, ground zero of the Central American migration crisis, and Venezuela, where she went undercover to report on the country’s healthcare disaster. Her work has won numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, Gracie Allen Award, and two Emmy nominations. Before her work with the NewsHour, Biggs produced reports for Al Jazeera English, Fox News Channel, CNN, and ABC News. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she completed her Bachelors degree in History at Vanderbilt University and her Masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut.