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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/20/turkey.collapse.ap/index.html
"Geologists have urged the Turkish government since 1999 -- when two earthquakes west of Istanbul killed more than 18,000 people -- to tear down some 50,000 buildings that would probably collapse if a big quake hits Istanbul.

They say hundreds of thousands of other buildings that rise in an unstable mass of brick, mortar and stone, need to be reinforced.

Topbas said the collapsed building was on the list of 16,000 other buildings marked as unsafe and needed to be pulled down in Zeytinburnu district alone."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6381213.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeytinburnu