2100 lawsuits were filed against contractors for the collapsed buildings in the 1999 Gölcük earthquake.
1800 of them went unpunished due to the Conditional Release Law and legal loopholes.
The convictions in 110 of the remaining 300 cases were largely postponed.
The other cases were dropped on 16 February 2007 due to statute of limitations.
In Sakarya, 5 out of 695 cases were convicted.
In Kocaeli, 12 out of 600 cases were convicted.
Only one of the 173 cases filed in Yalova resulted in a conviction.
There was not a single conviction in Istanbul.
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