Hatice Duman

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Hatice Duman (born April 5, 1974 in Malatya) is a Kurdish journalist and editor-in-chief of the daily (The Leap), the official newspaper of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) in Turkey. Since April 9, 2003, she is kept in prison in Gebze and is accused of being a manager of a terrorist organization. On October 16, 2012, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals ratified the life-time imprisonment sentence against her.^[1]

Early years[]

Hatice Duman was born in the eastern province of Malatya on April 5, 1974. Her family had moved to [the southeastern province] of Antep due to economic reasons. She finished elementary and middle school in Antep. She graduated from Trakya University's Vocational School of Higher Education in 1996.

Journalistic career[]

She began working as a reporter for in 1996 and in 1997 she started working at the chief editor's desk for the same newspaper.

Imprisonment[]

The police raided Duman's house on April 9, 2003, claiming Duman was a female they were searching for in relation with two robberies.^[1] Duman was convicted of propaganda and being a member of the banned Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), and given a lifetime sentence in 2011.^[2]

According to a report by Füsun Erdoğan, Duman stated "the state employed all its violence and repression to prevent us from perceiving, seeing and writing the truth. All the issues we published were confiscated, and we were prevented from following the news. Our cameras and recorders were broken. They seized our computers. They filed suits against the confiscated issues of our newspaper."^[1]

See also[]

• List of arrested journalists in Turkey

References[]