After graduating from Türk Maarif Koleji, Yaşın completed her undergraduate education at Middle East Technical University where she studied sociology.
Yaşın mainly writes in Turkish although a considerable number of her works of prose have been translated into Greek and English.
She frequently writes and presents papers on peace and reunification of her "beloved island" 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.
[4] Yaşın currently teaches at the University of Cyprus at the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies.