Urkiye Mine Balman

Urkiye Mine Balman (born: 1927) in Lefke is a author and poet who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in Cyprus. Balman has written on a wide variety 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 Yesilada, Türk Dili, and Türk'e Dogru literary magazines in Turkey. Some of her poems have also been composed by Turkish Cypriot musicians. Her only poetry book was published in 1952 called "Yurduma Giden Yollar" ("The Roads that Lead to My Home").