[1] The building of Halkevi was planned to meet the demands of the project as a theatre, a concert hall, classrooms, workshops etc.

It was designed by architect Ertuğrul Menteşe with the consultants Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, Dr. Mukbil Gökdoğan and Raşit Tuğrul.

Two months later, Mersin residents were able to watch Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly, put on stage by the guest artists from Ankara Opera.

[3] After the Halkevleri Project was terminated by the government on 8 August 1951, a western wing of the building was used as movie theatre and the rest was used as a library and vocational school for girls.

[4] Although officially called cultural center (Turkish: Kültür merkezi) the popular name of the building is still Halkevi.