Mehmet Yaşın (born 1958) is a Turkish Cypriot poet and author.
Mehmet Yaşın was born in the Yenişehir neighborhood of Nicosia[1] to Turkish-Cypriot parents.
[2] His first poem was published in 1979 at the Turkish journal Sanat Emeği ("Art Work"), and his poems received attention in the journals Yazko Edebiyat, Adam Sanat and Defter in the 1980s.
In 2002, he published poems in the Karamanli Turkish language, at a period when he withdrew from publicity.
[6] His works have been translated to more than 20 languages and have been set to music in Cyprus, Turkey, the UK and the Netherlands.