DIARY - Turkey - to Dec 29, 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
26/10 1400/1700 Manufacturing conf Oct 97.8
30/10 1400/1700 Trade balance Sept -$4.876b
1/11 N/A TIM export figures Oct $8.388b
3/11 1400/1700 CPI m/m Oct +0.39%
3/11 1400/1700 CPI y/y Oct +5.27%
3/11 1400/1700 PPI m/m Oct +0.62%
3/11 1400/1700 PPI y/y Oct +0.47%
9/11 0700/1000 Industrial production Sept -6.3%
9/11 1330/1630 CPI forecast Nov +5.40
9/11 1400/1700 Treasury cash balance Oct -12.87b
12/11 0700/1000 Capacity utilisation Oct 70.1%
12/11 1400/1700 Current account Sept +127m
16/11 0700/1000 Unemployment Aug 12.8%
16-20/11 N/A Budget balance Oct -9.48b
19/11 1600/1900 Interest rate decision Oct 6.75%
16/11 0700/1000 Consumer confidence Oct 81.92
20/11 1430/1730 Govt debt stock Oct 431.1b
20/10 1330/1630 CPI forecast Nov N/A
*23/11 0700/1000 Foreign arrivals Oct 5.2%

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

*ISLAMABAD - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to meet
Pakistan's president and address the country's parliament before
travelling to Iran for an official visit.

*BELGRADE - President Abdullah Gul on an official visit to
Serbia where he will meet his Serbian counterpart and hold a
joint news conference.

*ANKARA - State Minister Egemen Bagis, Turkey's chief
negotiator with the European Union, to represent the government
at a meeting of the joint Turkish-EU parliamentary commission
meeting (1200).

*ANKARA - Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek to present the 2010
draft budget to parliament's planning and budget commission
(1200).

*ANKARA - The Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP)
Chairman Ahmet Turk to hold a news conference (0900).

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

ANKARA - Central Bank releases quarterly inflation report.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets close at mid-day to mark
Republic Day.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark Republic Day.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

ISTANBUL - Deadline for non-financial companies and
insurance companies to report unconsolidated third-quarter
earnings.

ANKARA - Treasury announces borrowing plan for November.

ISTANBUL - Petrochemical maker Petkim (PETKM.IS) expected to
release its third-quarter earnings statement.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

NEW YORK - Turkcell (TKC.N) (TCELL.IS), Turkey's largest
mobile-phone operator, expected to release its third-quarter
earnings statement.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

ISTANBUL - Afghanistan Reconstruction Summit. Until Nov 12.

ISTANBUL - Tupras (TUPRS.IS), Turkey's sole refiner, may
release third-quarter earnings statement.

ISTANBUL - Builder Tekfen TEKFN.IS expected to release
third-quarter earnings statement.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

ISTANBUL - Anadolu Efes (AEFES.IS), Turkey's biggest brewer,
may release third-quarter earnings statement.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

ISTANBUL - Deadline for non-financial companies to report
consolidated third-quarter earnings and for banks to report
unconsolidated earnings.

ISTANBUL - State lender Vakifbank (VAKBN.IS) expected to
report third-quarter earnings.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

ISTANBUL - Turkish shipping and finance conference.

ISTANBUL - Power & Electricity World Eurasia 2009 focusing
on renewable energy.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

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

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26

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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

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

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

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

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 PKK.

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