Urkiye Mine Balman (January 29, 1927 - April 28, 2018), born in

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, was a Turkish Cypriot

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and

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who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in

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. Balman has written on a wide variety of genres, but her works are mostly romantic poems describing sometimes a lonesome village girl or country life and long-distance romances. Balman has published her works in Yeşilada, Türk Dili, and Türk'e Doğru literary magazines in

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. Some of her poems have also been set to music by

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musicians.

Works

"Urkiye Mine Balman", ''Sevgisiir''"Köy Düğünü" (Village Wedding) Gulum.net
* '' Yurduma Giden Yollar'' ("The Roads that Lead to My Home") 1952 * '' Kibris Turk Yazininin Ilk Kadin Sairlerinden URKIYE MINE BALMAN'' 2003

References

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