DIARY - Turkey - to Jan 21, 2010

(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
20/11 1330/1530 CPI forecast Nov 5.80%
20/11 1500/1700 Govt debt stock Oct 431.1b
23/11 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Oct 5.2%
24/11 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Nov 94.0
1/12 N/A TIM export figures Nov $9.945b
3/12 1500/1700 CPI m/m Nov +2.41%
3/12 1500/1700 CPI y/y Nov +5.08%
3/12 1500/1700 PPI m/m Nov +0.28%
3/12 1500/1700 PPI y/y Nov +0.19%
4/12 1500/1700 Trade balance Oct -$3.95b
8/12 1500/1700 Treasury cash balance Nov +990m
8/12 0800/1000 Industrial production Oct -8.6%
9/12 1330/1530 CPI forecast Dec N/A
10/12 0800/1000 GDP Q3 -7.0%
10/12 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Nov 71.8%
10/12 1500/1700 Current account Oct -$0.869b
15/12 0800/1000 Unemployment Sept 13.4%
15/12 N/A Budget balance Nov -2.42b
16/12 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Nov 80.46
*17/12 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Dec 6.50%

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to meet Egyptian Defence
Minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and Syrian
Speaker of Parliament Mahmoud al-Abrash (1300/1400).

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to chair a meeting
of the provinicial leaders of his ruling AK Party (0800).

*TABRIZ - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to hold talks
with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

*ISTANBUL - Central Bank Governor Durmus Yilmaz to make
speech at business association meeting (0800).

*ANKARA - Military headquarters to hold weekly media
briefing (0900).

KIZILCAHAMAM, Turkey - AK Party to hold 14th consultation
and assessment meeting. (Until Nov 22)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Erdogan to travel to Libya with
large delegation of ministers and businessmen. (Until Nov. 25)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24

KONYA, Turkey - Foreign Minister Davutoglu hosts working
group on democratisation reforms in Turkey.

ANKARA - Treasury to sell seven-year lira-denominated
floating-rate note at auction.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26

ISTANBUL - Deadline for banks to report consolidated
third-quarter earnings.

*ISTANBUL - Turkey-EU troika meeting to be held.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets close at mid-day to mark
Islamic holidy of Eid al-Adha.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets close to mark Eid al-Adha.
Until Dec 1.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7

WASHINGTON - Erdogan to visit to United States.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary
Policy Committee meets.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29

ANKARA - Next hearing in trial against pro-Kurdish
Democratic Society Party (DTP) co-chairmen Ahmet Turk and Emine
Ayna and deputy Selahattin Demirtas on charges they disseminated
propaganda on behalf of Kurdish separatists.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark national
holiday.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21

ISTANBUL - Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's
Association, or Tusiad, holds general assembly to elect new
chairperson.

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary
Policy Committee meets.

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