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
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
*22/7 1330/1630 CPI forecast July 6.02%
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%
*7/8 1330/1630 CPI forecast Aug N/A
10/8 0700/1000 Industrial production June -17.4%
10/8 1400/1700 Treasury cash balance July -2.467b

FRIDAY, JULY 10

*L'AQUILA, ITALY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to attend
the third day of the Group of Eight summit in Italy (1200).

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to to meet president of
Nigerian Parliament Dimeji Bankole and later the head of the
Capital Markets Board Vedat Akgiray.

*ISTANBUL - Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to hold news
conference after meeting with Azeri state-owned oil and gas
company SOCAR president, Rovnag Abdullaev.

*KAYSERI - Industry Minister Nihat Ergun to speak at a
ceremony for an industrial zone.

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.

WEDNESDAY, Jul 29

*ANKARA - The central bank releases its quarterly inflation
report

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.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

*ANKARA - The central bank releases its quarterly inflation
report.

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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