Neşe Yaşın

Neşe Yasin ( born February 12, 1959 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Turkish Cypriot poet and writer.

Life

Neşe Yasin was born in Nicosia and has Turkish Cypriot parents. Her father is the poet and writer Özker Yasin, her brother, the poet Mehmet Yasin.

Neşe Yasin has a degree from the Technical University of the Middle East in Ankara, where she studied sociology. She currently teaches at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia at the Department of Turkish and Middle East Studies.

Since the mid- 1980s, she lives and works in South Nicosia. Since her youth, she is an active peace activist and member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group, the fifteen projects to promote peace and the reunification of the island of Cyprus in the Cyprus Peace Bazaar introduced in 1995.

Yasin writes mainly in Turkish, but a considerable number of her works have been translated into Greek and English. Also, several poems and articles by her in Turkish and Greek- language publications were issued in ethnic Greek and Turkish communities, and throughout the island of Cyprus.

Yasin writes and often published essays on peace and reunification of their " beloved island of Cyprus ." One of these treatises that had gotten a lot of attention, was introduced in 1998 at the World Conference on Culture in Stockholm.

In 2006, she made ​​history when she took a position in the Parliament of Cyprus after the Cypriot government agreed to a law that Turkish Cypriots living in the south allowed to participate in the elections.

She was the first Turkish Cypriot person who participated in the elections in Cyprus since 1963.

List of Works

• Which Half, 1995, Thegona, Nicosia
• Üzgün ​​Kızların Gizli Tarihi ( The Secret History of the Sad Girls ), 2002, İletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, ISBN 975-05-0096-2
• Ay Aşktan Yapılmıştır ( The Moon Is Made of Love ), 2001, Gendaş Kültür, Istanbul, ISBN 975-308-300-9