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
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 5.81%
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%
21/12 1530/1730 Govt debt stock Nov 438b
22/12 1430/1630 CPI forecast Dec 5.81%
23/12 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Nov 6.28%
29/12 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Dec 91.2

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

ATHENS - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend OSCE
(Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) meeting
(Until Dec. 2).

*ANKARA - Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat visits
Turkey and meets President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan.

*AMMAN - President Abdullah Gul pays an official visit to
Jordan.

*ANKARA - The Treasury issues 20-month lira-denominated
discount bond.

*ANKARA - Groups of the ruling and the main opposition
parties hold their weekly gatherings in parliament.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to visit United
States.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

ISTANBUL - Renewable energy conference. Until Dec. 11.

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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