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DIARY - Turkey - to Sept 24, 2008

Wed Jul 2, 2008 11:45am IST
 
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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
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
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