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.
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