Neşe Yaşın (born February 12, 1959), is a
Turkish Cypriot
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr, Kıbrıs Türkleri or ''Kıbrıslı Türkler''; el, Τουρκοκύπριοι, Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,0 ...
poet and author.
Early life
Neşe Yaşın was born in
Nicosia to Turkish-Cypriot parents. Her father is the accomplished poet and author Özker Yaşın and she is the sister of the award-winning poet
Mehmet Yaşın. After graduating from
Türk Maarif Koleji, Yaşın completed her undergraduate education at
Middle East Technical University where she studied
Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...
. She then graduated from the
University of Cyprus
The University of Cyprus (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου) is a public research university established in Cyprus in 1989. It admitted its first students in 1992 and has approximately 7000 students.
History
The University of Cyprus wa ...
.
Career
She has been an active
peace activist
A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals, such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world pea ...
from a very young age and member of the
Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group The Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group (also referred to in the media or literature as CRTG: ''Conflict Resolution Trainers Group'', or simply ''Trainers’ Group'' or ''The Trainers'') was founded in 1994 by about 30 Cypriot peace pioneers ( ...
, which in 1995 proposed 15 projects to promote peace and reconciliation on the island and presented in the
Cyprus Peace Bazaar. Yaşın mainly writes in Turkish although a considerable number of her works of prose have been translated into Greek and English. Also her poetry has been translated to 20 languages, published in literary magazines and anthologies. She frequently writes and presents papers on peace and reunification of her "beloved island"
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...
. One such paper that gathered attention was the one presented at World Conference on Culture in Stockholm in 1998.
Yaşın directed and presented a literary program called ''41st Room'' at "
CYBC
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation ( gr, Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου , tr, Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu), or CyBC (ΡΙΚ, KRYK), is Cyprus' public broadcasting service. It transmits island-wide on four radio and two domestic ...
" radio (1992-2007) and the program ''Peace Garden'' (2001-2003) at "ASTRA" radio. She is currently writing weekly columns for "
BirGün
''BirGün'' (''One Day'') is an Istanbul-based Turkish left-wing daily.
The paper was founded in 2004 by a group of Turkish intellectuals. The most important point of the newspaper is that it is not owned by any parent company or conglomerate.
...
" newspaper (Turkey) and "
Yenidüzen" newspaper (Cyprus).
In 2006, she made history in Cyprus when she ran for a position in the parliament of Cyprus after the Cypriot government passed a law allowing Turkish-Cypriots residing in the south to vote in general elections for non Turkish-Cypriot candidates. She became the first Turkish-Cypriot to participate in elections since the departure of the Turkish-Cypriot candidates in 1963.
Yaşın currently teaches at the
University of Cyprus
The University of Cyprus (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου) is a public research university established in Cyprus in 1989. It admitted its first students in 1992 and has approximately 7000 students.
History
The University of Cyprus wa ...
at the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies.
Biography from biyografi.net
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Since the mid 1980s, she has been living and working in south Nicosia.
Bibliography
* Hyacinth and Narcissus, 1979, Cem Publications, Istanbul
Awards
* Artist of the Year-''Special Award'' (Republic of Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...
), 1978
References
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1959 births
Turkish Cypriot writers
Living people
Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group
Turkish women poets
Türk Maarif Koleji alumni
Academic staff of the University of Cyprus
People from North Nicosia
Middle East Technical University alumni
University of Cyprus alumni