Neşe Yaşın

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

Life

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

Neşe Yaşın graduated from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where she studied sociology . She is currently teaching at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia at the Faculty of Turkish and Middle East Studies.

She has lived and worked in South Nicosia since the mid-1980s. Since her youth she has been an active peace activist and a member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group , which in 1995 presented fifteen projects to promote peace and the reunification of the island of Cyprus at the Cyprus Peace Bazaar .

Yaşın writes mainly in Turkish, but a significant number of her works have been translated into Greek and English. Several of her poems and articles have also been published in Turkish and Greek language publications in ethnic Greek and Turkish communities and throughout the island of Cyprus.

Yaşın often writes and publishes essays on peace and the reunification of her “beloved island of Cyprus ”. One of these papers, which received a lot of attention, was presented at the 1998 World Conference on Culture in Stockholm.

In 2006 she made history when she ran for a position in the parliament of Cyprus after the Cypriot government passed a law allowing Cypriot Turks living in the south to vote.

She was the first Turkish Cypriot person to vote in the elections in Cyprus since 1963.

Catalog raisonné

  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turkish-Cypriot Literature , CypNet.co.uk website
  2. ^ Conference Papers Parliament ( Memento of February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), World Conference on Culture-Stockholm website, 1998
  3. ↑ In Her Own Words: Neshe Yashin , The Cyprus Report website, March 26 2006
  4. ↑ The candidate from the other side ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (German)
personal data
SURNAME Yaşın, Neşe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cypriot poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Nicosia , Cyprus