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.
On October 16, 2012, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence of life-time imprisonment against her.
Her family moved to [the southeastern province of Gaziantep for economic reasons and she finished elementary and middle school there.
[1] Duman was convicted of making 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 said: "the state employed all its violence and repression to prevent us from perceiving, seeing and writing the truth.