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
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 +6.30%
23/12 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Nov 6.28%
29/12 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Dec 91.2
30/12 1500/1700 Trade balance Nov -$2.573b
1/1 N/A TIM export figures Dec $8.825b
4/1 0800/1000 CPI m/m Dec +1.27%
4/1 0800/1000 CPI y/y Dec +5.53%
4/1 0800/1000 PPI m/m Dec +1.29%
4/1 0800/1000 PPI y/y Dec +1.51%
*11-15 1330/1530 CPI forecast Jan N/A

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul departs for Albania for an
official visit. He will make a press statement before his
departure.

*MEXICO CITY - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan meets head of
Mexico's senate and leading businessmen of the country before
his return to Turkey.

*ANKARA - A commission holds its first meeting to decide the
minimum wage for next year.

*ANKARA - Central Bank governor Durmus Yilmaz holds a press
conference to announce next year's monetary and exchange rate
policy.

ISTANBUL - Renewable energy conference. Until Dec. 11.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

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

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22

ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to visit Damascus for
a Turkish-Arab forum.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29

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

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31

ANKARA - Turkey to release net foreign debt stock data for
the third quarter.

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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