Substandard construction was also blamed for many of the deaths in two 1999 quakes in western Turkey that killed more than 18,000 people, as well as in the quake in Bingol in May 2003 that killed 176 people -- including 84 children and a teacher who were trapped in a collapsed four-storey school dormitory.
Gradnja koja ne udovoljava građevinskim standardima navodi se i kao razlog velikog broja smrtnih slučajeva u potresima koji su 1999. zahvatili zapadnu Tursku, rezultiravši smrću više od 18.000 ljudi, kao i razlog smrti 176 osoba u potresu koji se dogodio u Bingolu u svibnju 2003.