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
17/12 N/A Budget balance Nov -2.42b
17/12 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Dec 6.50%
21/12 15O0/1700 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
31-2 N/A TIM export figures Dec $8.825b
4/1 1500/1700 CPI m/m Dec +1.27%
4/1 1500/1700 CPI y/y Dec +5.53%
4/1 1500/1700 PPI m/m Dec +1.29%
4/1 1500/1700 PPI y/y Dec +1.51%
11-15 1430/1630 CPI forecast Jan N/A
*7-11 1500/1700 Cash balance Dec -5.682b
*11-12 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Dec 70.7%
*11-12 1500/1700 Current account Nov $0.671b
*15/1 0800/1000 Unemployment Oct 13.4%
*18/1 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Dec 78.38

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to host meeting on
the government's initiative to boost the rights of minority
Kurds (0930).

*ANKARA - Economy Minister Ali Babacan and Chief of Staff
Ilker Basbug to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

*GRAZ, AUSTRIA - Galatasaray plays away fixture in UEFA
Europa League against Sturm Graz (1800).

*ISTANBUL - Central Bank to announce October private sector
forex-denominated debt data (1500).

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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