Vital registration is of sufficient quality to be used for adult mortality in many countries. We used Brass Growth-Balance and Preston-Coale techniques to assess coverage of burial register and developed an approach using West and East model life-tables to assess internal consistency. We found death registration missed about a third of deaths, and was worse for females and Turkey could expect between 42-49% of its deaths to be female and 7-20% of those to be aged 15-49 which is more susceptible to model choice. These percentages may be useful for rapid quality assessment in settings with little demographic analytic capability.