DIARY - Turkey - to May 14, 2009

(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
8-9/1 Jobless claims Dec 147.0%
8/1 0800/1000 Industrial production Nov -8.5%
8/1 1330/1530 CPI forecast 2-week 11.04%
12-16/1 Budget balance Dec -3.385b
12/1 0800/1000 Capacity utilisation Dec 72.9%
12/1 1500/1700 C/A balance Nov -2.646b
15/1 0800/1000 Unemployment Oct 10.3%
15/1 1700/1900 Interest rate decision Jan 15.00%
16/1 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Dec 68.88
20/1 1500/1700 Central govt debt Dec 379.5b
22/1 1330/1530 CPI forecast 2wk N/A
23/1 0800/1000 Foreign arrivals Dec 7.69%
26/1 1500/1700 Manufacturing conf Jan 52.3
30/1 1500/1700 Trade balance Dec -2.722b
1/2 TIM export figures Jan 7.11b
3/2 1500/1700 CPI mm Jan -0.41%
3/2 1500/1700 CPI yy Jan 10.06%
3/2 1500/1700 PPI mm Jan -3.54%
3/2 1500/1700 PPI yy Jan 8.11%
*9/2 1530/1730 Treasury cash balance Jan -7.455b

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

*ANKARA - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana
to meet Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan. Gul and Erdogan will also meet Arab ambassadors (from
1000).

*ANKARA - International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation to
begin talks with Turkish officials on a possible new loan
agreement.

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul to meet the head of the
armed forces General Ilker Basbug at the presidential palace
(1230).

*ANKARA - Ersin Ozince, heading of Turkish Banking
Association and chief executive of Is Bank (ISCTR.IS), to attend
a conference hosted by a construction industry union and KPMG
Turkey (1230).

*ISTANBUL - The banking sector watchdog BDDK to hold seminar
on strengthening financial stability.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13

ANKARA - Foreign Minister Ali Babacan to visit Kosovo.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

MONDAY, JANUARY 19

BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visits Brussels to
discuss Turkey's troubled accession talks process. He is due to
hold talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel
Barroso, and other senior EU officials. Until Jan. 20.

ANKARA - Turkish state power company TETAS will announce
electricity price proposals from a Russian-Turkish consortium
which was the sole bidder in a tender to build Turkey's first
nuclear power plant.

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

ISTANBUL - Central Bank quarterly inflation report.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

MONDAY, MARCH 16

ISTANBUL - 5th World Water Forum. Until March 22.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

SUNDAY, MARCH 29

*NATIONWIDE - Municipal elections to be held.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

ISTANBUL - Central Bank quarterly inflation report.

SATURDAY, MAY 9

NATIONWIDE - Introduction of number portability for
fixed-line telephones.

THURSDAY, MAY 14

ISTANBUL - Central Bank monetary policy committee meeting
and interest rate decision (1700).

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