Her parents, concerned for the education of their daughter, transferred her to the Atatürk Primary School in Nicosia, where she resided for the rest of her life.
[2] She went to the Victoria Girls' High School, where she studied classics with the help of her philosophy teacher and became increasingly vocal with her writing.
[2] Her early poetry in this period was more focused on natural and romantic themes; it shifted towards social issues with time.
Some of the topics explored in her work are womanhood in Cyprus, the city of Nicosia and the perception of sexuality in the Turkish Cypriot society.
[5] She is the founder of the Women's Research Center[2] and currently writes periodicals in the Turkish Cypriot daily newspaper Yeni Düzen.