The daughter of the Turkish poet Ozker Yasin, Nese Yasin was born on the Turkish part of Cyprus, in the mixed Greek/Turk village of Peristerona, 20 miles from Nicosia but lives in the Greek southern part.
In 2006 she was the first Turkish Cypriot since 1963 to enter the parliamentary election on the Greek part.
She studied Sociology and graduated from the Department of Social Sciences of the Middle East Technical University.
She is one of the leading members of the '74 Generation Poetry Movement. Her poems have been translated and published in magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and books in Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Holland, Germany and England. One of her poems `Which Half?' has been used as lyrics in a composition by Mario Tokas.
Her most famous poem 'Which part' she wrote in 1974 but it is still important to her: 'My father says: Do you love your fatherland? My fatherland has been split in half, which part must I love?'.
