DIARY - Turkey - to May 14, 2009

(All times are provisional and in GMT. For local time add two
hours. This diary is updated every day, and new listings or
amendments are marked "*".)

KEY INDICATORS
DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD PRIOR
12/1 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Dec 72.9%
12/1 1500/1700 C/A balance Nov -2.646b
12-15/1 Jobless claims Dec 147.0%
12-16/1 Budget balance Dec -3.385b
15/1 0800/1000 Unemployment Oct 10.3%
15/1 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Jan 15.00%
16/1 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Dec 68.88
20/1 1500/1700 Central govt debt Dec 379.5b
22/1 1330/1530 CPI forecast 2wk 7.84
23/1 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Dec 7.69%
26/1 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Jan 52.3
30/1 1500/1700 Trade balance Dec -2.722b
1/2 TIM export figures Jan 7.11b
3/2 1500/1700 CPI mm Jan -0.41%
3/2 1500/1700 CPI yy Jan 10.06%
3/2 1500/1700 PPI mm Jan -3.54%
3/2 1500/1700 PPI yy Jan 8.11%
9/2 0800/1000 Industrial production Dec -13.9%
9/2 1330/1530 CPI forecast 2-week N/A
9/2 1530/1730 Treasury cash balance Jan -7.455b

MONDAY, JANUARY 12

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to chair a cabinet
meeting (0900).

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Erdogan to chair a meeting of the
central executive board of his ruling AK Party (1700).

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to host a delegation of the
Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations.

*ANKARA - Foreign Minister Ali Babacan to travel to Kosovo.

*ISTANBUL - The Treasury will hold an auction for a
six-month reference bill maturing on July 15, 2009.

*ANKARA - Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan to speak at a
conference on tax policy (0800).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

MONDAY, JANUARY 19

BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visits Brussels to
discuss Turkey's troubled accession talks process. He is due to
hold talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel
Barroso, and other senior EU officials. Until Jan. 20.

ANKARA - Turkish state power company TETAS will announce
electricity price proposals from a Russian-Turkish consortium
which was the sole bidder in a tender to build Turkey's first
nuclear power plant.

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

ISTANBUL - Central Bank quarterly inflation report.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

MONDAY, MARCH 16

ISTANBUL - 5th World Water Forum. Until March 22.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

SUNDAY, MARCH 29

*NATIONWIDE - Municipal elections to be held.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

ISTANBUL - Central Bank quarterly inflation report.

SATURDAY, MAY 9

NATIONWIDE - Introduction of number portability for
fixed-line telephones.

THURSDAY, MAY 14

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

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