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
8/10 0700/1000 Industrial production Aug -9.2%
8/10 1330/1630 CPI forecast Oct 5.65
8/10 1400/1700 Treasury cash balance Sept +2.51b
10-14/10 N/A Budget balance Sept -1.5b
12/10 0700/1000 Capacity utilisation Sept 69.7%
12/10 1400/1700 Current account Aug +0.286b
15/10 0700/1000 Unemployment July 13.0%
15/10 1600/1900 Interest rate decision Oct 7.25%
16/10 0700/1000 Consumer confidence Sept 81.30
20/10 1400/1700 Cen govt debt stock Sept 424.7b
22/10 1330/1630 CPI forecast Oct N/A
23/10 0700/1000 Foreign arrivals Sept -0.05
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%

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

*ANKARA - Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to speak at energy
conference after trip to Qatar.

*PARIS - President Abdullah Gul on official visit to France.

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan holds weekly meeting
with head of the armed forces Ilker Basbug (0900).

*ANKARA - Economy Minister Ali Babacan to hold news
conference on the IMF-World Bank semi-annual meetings (0730).

ANKARA - Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs meets
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (0830).

ISTANBUL - South-East European Cooperation Process meeting.
Until Oct. 9. Foreign ministers from Turkey, Serbia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina expected to hold talks.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

ISTANBUL - South East European Cooperation Process meeting
of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10

ISTANBUL - Twelfth International Balkan Conference, attended
by 40 leaders. Turkish-European Union relations to be discussed.
Until Oct. 11.

ZURICH - Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers are expected
to sign protocols on normalising ties between two countries.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

ANKARA - Deadline to complete Turkish and Armenian protocols
on normalising ties. Completed protocols to be presented to each
country's parliament for approval.

ALEPPO, Syria - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
signs agreement with Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moualem on
tourist-visa exemption. The foreign ministers then cross border
to Gaziantep for Turkish-Syrian co-operation council meeting.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

BURSA - Turkey versus Armenia in World Cup soccer qualifying
match. Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan invited to watch the
game with Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan and Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expected to meet Iraqi cabinet for
strategic-cooperation council.

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

PARIS - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu meets
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

LONDON - Turkish Investment Summit attended by Simsek, state
pipeline operator Botas chief Saltuk Duzyol and Prime Ministry
Investment Support & Promotion Agency's Alpaslan Korkmaz. Until
Oct 23.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

BELGRADE - Turkish President Abdullah Gul to visit Serbia.

ISTANBUL- Central and Eastern Europe Energy Forum. Until Oct
25.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

TEHRAN/ISLAMABAD/KABUL - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan may visit Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Until Oct. 26.

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.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

ISTANBUL - Afghanistan Reconstruction Summit. Until Nov. 12.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

ISTANBUL - Turkish shipping and shipping finance conference.

ISTANBUL - Power & Electricity World Eurasia 2009
conference, with focus on renewable energy.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

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

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.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark Eid al-Adha.

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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