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
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
*10/8 0700/1000 Capacity utilisation July 72.7%
*10/8 1400/1700 Current acct balance June $1.47 bln

TUESDAY, JULY 14

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to chair a cabinet
meeting (1000).

*ANKARA - Erdogan to hold talks with Turkish Cypriot leader
Mehmet Ali Talat (0800).

*ANKARA - Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul to hold talks
with his Albanian counterpart Gazmend Oketa (0615).

*ANKARA - Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to hold talks with
Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Alao (0700).

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.

*ISTANBUL - President Abdullah Gul to travel to Sharm
el-Sheikh in Egypt to attend a summit of the Non-Alinged
Movement (1945).

*ANKARA - State Minister Egemen Bagis, Turkey's chief
negotiator with the European Union, to attend a reception at the
French Embassy (1600).

THURSDAY, JULY 16

*ANKARA - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to visit
Turkey.

ANKARA - Central Bank's interest-rate setting committee
meets.

FRIDAY, JULY 19

NATIONWIDE - Turkey introduces ban on cigarette smoking
indoors at 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.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4

ANKARA - Parliament due to elect new spearker.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

ANKARA - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expected to
visit 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 (DTP) 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 - DTP 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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