BURSA The work of a female architect who won a design competition in the northwestern province of Bursa 88 years ago has been hosting art lovers at the Ahmet Vefik Paşa State Theater , which is Türkiye’s first regional theater since 1957. The building, completed in 1940 by Münevver Belen, one of Türkiye’s first female architects and the winner of the 1937 architecture competition for the Halkevi (public house) building in Bursa, has been in service for 85 years. An iconic structure, the