Hatice Duman

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OccupationJournalist
NationalityKurdish
CitizenshipTurkey
AlmamaterTrakya University
Hatice Duman
OccupationJournalist
NationalityKurdish
CitizenshipTurkey
Alma materTrakya University

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

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

Journalistic career

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

Imprisonment

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