DIARY - Turkey - to Dec 17, 2009

Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:37am EDT

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 (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

 MONDAY, JULY 13

 *ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul meets Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili. 1230.

 *ANKARA - Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat holds
talks with Gul. News conference at 0850.

 *ANKARA - Speaker of parliament Koksal Toptan holds news
conference on past legislative year. 0800.

 *ANKARA - Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to
discuss planned appeal of law allowing civilian courts to try
military personnel.

 ANKARA - Representatives from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary and Austria sign intergovernmental accord on Nabucco
natural-gas pipeline project. News conference at 1005.

 *ANKARA - Gul meets U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and U.S.
special energy envoy Richard Morningstar. 1330.

 *ANKARA - Economy Minister Ali Babacan chairs
economic-coordination meeting. 0800 GMT.

 *ANKARA - Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay holds
talks with Greek counterpart Costas Markopoulos. 1600.

 *ISTANBUL - Istanbul Stock Exchange President Huseyin Erkan
gives university talk on financial markets. 0830.

 ANKARA - Treasury auctions six-month, or 182-day,
lira-denominated discount bond.

 TUESDAY, JULY 14

 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.

 THURSDAY, JULY 16

 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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