DIARY - Turkey - to Jan 21, 2010

(All times are provisional and in GMT. For local time, add two
hours. This diary is updated every day, and new listings or
amendments are marked "*".)
KEY INDICATORS
DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD PRIOR
1/12 N/A TIM export figures Nov $9.945b
3/12 1500/1700 CPI m/m Nov +2.41%
3/12 1500/1700 CPI y/y Nov +5.08%
3/12 1500/1700 PPI m/m Nov +0.28%
3/12 1500/1700 PPI y/y Nov +0.19%
4/12 1500/1700 Trade balance Oct -$3.95b
8/12 1500/1700 Treasury cash balance Nov +990m
8/12 0800/1000 Industrial production Oct -8.6%
9/12 1330/1530 CPI forecast Dec 5.81%
10/12 0800/1000 GDP Q3 -7.0%
10/12 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Nov 71.8%
10/12 1500/1700 Current account Oct -$0.869b
15/12 0800/1000 Unemployment Sept 13.4%
15/12 N/A Budget balance Nov -2.42b
16/12 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Nov 80.46
17/12 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Dec 6.50%
21/12 1530/1730 Govt debt stock Nov 438b
22/12 1430/1630 CPI forecast Dec 5.81%
23/12 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Nov 6.28%
29/12 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Dec 91.2

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26

ISTANBUL - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and chief
negotiator with the EU Egemen Bagis holds talks with Swedish
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel
Angel Moratinos and European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
at a Turkey-EU troika meeting (1100 GMT).

ISTANBUL - Financial markets close at midday for a public
holiday to mark the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of
the Sacrifice.

*ANKARA - Abdulkadir Aksu, deputy chairman of the ruling AK
Party, to hold a news conference (1100).

*ANKARA - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to make regular
pre-recorded televised address to the nation (1800).

*ANKARA - President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias on official
visit.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

ISTANBUL - Financial markets closed for public holiday to
mark Muslim Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed for public holiday to
mark Muslim Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

*ATHENS - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to attend OSCE
(Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) meeting
(Until Dec. 2).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to visit United
States.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

*ISTANBUL - Renewable energy conference. Until Dec. 11.

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 Kurdish separatists.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 1

NATIONWIDE - Financial markets closed to mark national
holiday.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21

ISTANBUL - Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's
Association, or Tusiad, holds general assembly to elect new
chairperson.

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

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