DIARY - Turkey - to Dec 17, 2009

(All times are provisional and in GMT. For local time, add
three hours. This diary is updated every day, and new listings or
amendments are marked "*".)
KEY INDICATORS
DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD PRIOR
8/7 0700/1000 Industrial production May -18.5%
8/7 1400/1700 Treasury cash balance June -1.206b
9/7 1330/1630 CPI forecast July 6.18%
10/7 0700/1000 Capacity Utilisation June 70.4%
10/7 1400/1700 C/A Balance May -$1.239b
15/7 0700/1000 Unemployment April 15.8%
16/7 0700/1000 Consumer confidence June 83.28
16/7 1600/1900 Interest rate decision July 8.75%
20/7 1400/1700 Cen govt debt stock June 411.2b
23/7 0700/1000 Foreign arrivals June -1.08%
27/7 1400/1700 Manufacturing conf July 99.4
31/7 1400/1700 Trade balance June -$3.48b
1/8 TIM export figures July $8.12b
3/8 1400/1700 CPI m/m July +0.11%
3/8 1400/1700 CPI y/y July +5.73%
3/8 1400/1700 PPI m/m July 0.94%
3/8 1400/1700 PPI y/y July -1.86%

TUESDAY, JULY 7

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to meet with the chairmen
of the Turk-Is, DISK and Hak-Is union confederations (0900).

*ISTANBUL - Gul to hold talks with Haris Silajdzic, the
Muslim member of Bosnia's three-person presidency (1430).

*ISTANBUL - Turkey-Gulf Cooperation Council meeting of
foreign ministers to begin (0630).

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to greet the newly
appointed police chiefs (0800) and the chairman of the Council
of State administrative court (0900).

*ANKARA - State Minister Hayati Yazici to hold a news
conference on public sector wage talks (0900).

*ANKARA - The Treasury will hold a swap auction, buying
securities maturing on Oct 7, 2009 and Feb 17, 2010 and issuing
paper with the maturity dates of Sept 26, 2012 and Aril 2, 2014.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to meet Osman Baydemir,
mayor of Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.

MONDAY, JULY 13

ANKARA - Treasury auctions six-month, or 182-day,
lira-denominated discount bond.

*ANKARA - An intergovernmental accord for the Nabucco
natural gas pipeline to be signed. The pipeline, conceived to
relieve European dependence on Russian gas, is expected to bring
Caspian and Middle East gas to Europe as early as 2014.
Representatives from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and
Austria, the five countries through which the pipeline is
planned to run will sign the accord.

TUESDAY, JULY 14

ANKARA - Treasury auctions off 22-month, or 665-day,
lira-denominated discount bond and five-year, or 1,771-day, tap
of CPI-indexed bond.

THURSDAY, JULY 16

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

FRIDAY, JULY 19

NATIONWIDE - Turkey introduces ban on smoking cigarettes in
restaurants, bars and other recreational places.

MONDAY, JULY 20

ANKARA - Second trial begins for 56 suspects, including two
retired generals, accused of plotting to overthrow government
and belonging to an alleged right-wing network called Ergenekon.

TUESDAY, JULY 21

ANKARA - Treasury auctions off five-year, or 1,820-day,
floating-rate coupon bond.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

*ANKARA - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on official
visit to Turkey.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

ANKARA - Next hearing in trial against Democratic Society
Party co-chairs Ahmet Turk and Emine Ayna and deputy Selahattin
Demirtas on charges they disseminated propaganda on behalf of
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ANKARA - Democratic Society Party lawmaker Aysel Tugluk
hearing on charges relating to alleged links with PKK.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

ISTANBUL - Annual meetings of IMF and World Bank. Until Oct.
7.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

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