Urkiye Mine Balman (January 29, 1927 - April 28, 2018), born in Lefke, was a Turkish Cypriot author and poet who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in Cyprus.[1][2]
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 Turkey.[3] Some of her poems have also been set to music by Turkish Cypriot musicians.