DIARY - Turkey - to Sept 24, 2008

(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
3/7 1400/1700 CPI mm June +1.49%
3/7 1400/1700 CPI yy June +10.74%
3/7 1400/1700 PPI mm June +2.12%
3/7 1400/1700 PPI yy June +16.53%
7-11 1400/1700 C/A balance May -$4.882b
8/7 0700/100 Industrial production May +6.3%
8/7 1430/1730 Cash balance June +7.96b
9/7 approx 12/15 CPI forecast 2-week 10.63%
10-21 Budget balance June 3.389b
10/7 0700/1000 Capacity usage June 82.4%
15/7 0700/1000 Jobless April 10.7%
16/7 0700/1000 Consumer confidence June 75.36
17/7 1600/1900 CB rate decision July 16.25%
21/7 1430/1730 Govt debt stock June 346.5b
22/7 approx 12/15 CPI forecast 2-week 10.63%
23/7 0700/1000 Foreign arrivals June +20.15%
25/7 1400/1700 Manufacturing conf July 98.3
*31/7 1700/1900 Trade balance June -$6.79b
*1/8 0700/1000 Exports July $12.1b

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2

*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul meets Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov (1130) and Anti-Defamation League
Director Abraham Foxman (1300).

*ANKARA - Foreign Minister Ali Babacan meets Russian
counterpart (0700), followed by joint news conference (0900).

*ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan takes part in
energy conference (0630).

*ANKARA - Ankara Chamber of Commerce holds extraordinary
meeting after detention of its chairman, Sinan Aygun in a probe
into a suspected plot to engineer a coup. (0800)

THURSDAY, JULY 3

ANKARA - Constitutional Court to hear oral defence from
ruling AK Party in case aimed at closing down the party for
alleged Islamist activity.

MONDAY, JULY 7

ISTANBUL - Hearing in trial of suspects accused of murdering
Turkish Armenian editor Hrant Dink in January 2007.

THURSDAY, JULY 17

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank interest rate-setting meeting;
decision announced at 1600.

IZMIT - Deadline for bids for Izgas, the gas distribution
network of the industrial city of Izmit.

FRIDAY, JULY 18

ANKARA - Deadline for prequalification applications for
Meram and Aras electricity grid privatisation.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank interest rate-setting meeting;
decision announced at 1600.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

ANKARA - Deadline for bids for Meram and Aras electricity
grid privatisation (extended from July 15).

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

ANKARA - Constitutional Court to hear oral defence from
pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in a case aimed at closing
down the party for alleged separatist activity.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank interest rate-setting meeting.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

ANKARA - Deadline for bids in tender to build Turkey's first
nuclear power station.

NOTE - The inclusion of diary items does not necessarily
mean Reuters will file a story based on the event. For the
Reuters index of All Available Diaries, please click inside the
brackets: [IND/DIARY].