(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 12-22/5 Budget balance April -8.77b 14/5 1600/1900 Interest rate decision May 9.75% 15/5 0700/1000 Unemployment Feb 15.5% 18/5 0700/1000 Consumer conf April 74.77 20/5 1430/1730 Cen govt debt stock April 407.7b 22/5 0700/1000 Foreign Visitors April -7.47% 22/5 1330/1630 CPI forecast May 6.13% 25/5 1400/1700 Manufacturing conf May 85.1 29/5 1400/1700 Trade balance April -$2.33b 1/6 TIM export figures May $7.52b 3/6 1400/1700 CPI mm April 0.02% 3/6 1400/1700 CPI yy April 6.13% 3/6 1400/1700 PPI mm April 0.65% 3/6 1400/1700 PPI yy April -0.35% 8/6 0700/1000 Industrial production April -20.9% 8/6 1430/1730 Treasury cash balance May -533.9m 9/6 1330/1630 CPI forecast June N/A 10/6 1400/1700 Current Account April $992m 10/6 0700/1000 Capacity Utilisation April 66.8%
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
ISTANBUL - Mobile phone operator Turkcell (TCELL.IS) expected to report first-quarter earnings.
*ISTANBUL - President Abdullah Gul to attend a meeting of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and then receive a delegation of the Seventh Eurasian Islamic Council.
*ISTANBUL - Visiting Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva and Gul to meet.
*BAKU - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan meets Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
*MADRID - Turkey’s chief negotiator for the European Union accession talks Egemen Bagis meets Spain’s Secretary of State for the European Union Diego Lopez Garrido. Bagis will hold a news conference at Istanbul airport when he returns.
THURSDAY, MAY 14
ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting and interest-rate decision (1600).
NICOSIA - Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders to meet to discuss ongoing peace talks.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
SOCHI - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan travels to Russian sea resort for talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
NATIONWIDE - National holiday. Markets closed.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
ISTANBUL - UEFA Cup final at Fenerbahce’s Sukru Saracoglu stadium.
THURSDAY, MAY 21
ISTANBUL - Turkey Energy and Infrastructure Finance Conference. Until May 22.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4
ISTANBUL - International Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership Summit. Until June 5.
ISTANBUL - Turkey Infrastructure Investment and Finance Summit. Until June 5.
MONDAY, JUNE 23
ISTANBUL - Erdogan expected to attend business-government roundtable on Turkey’s outlook.
MONDAY, JULY 20
ANKARA - Second trial begins for 56 suspects, including two retired generals, accused of plotting to overthrow government and belonging to the so-called Ergenekon network.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6
ISTANBUL - Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Until Oct. 7.
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