(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

11/1 0800/1000 Current account Nov -$1.96b

15/1 0800/1000 Unemployment Oct 9.1%

15/1 0900/1100 Budget Balance Dec +5.4b

15/1 1230/1430 CPI forecast Jan 6.46%

16/1 0800/1000 Consumer confidence Dec 89.2

22/1 1200/1400 Interest rates Jan 5.50%

21/1 1500/1700 Debt stock Dec 530.9b

23/1 0900/1100 Foreign visitors Dec +2.21%

25/1 1230/1430 Capacity usage Jan 73.6%

25/1 1230/1430 Manufacturing conf Jan 97.9

31/1 0800/1000 Trade balance Dec -$7.2b

4/2 0800/1000 CPI m/m Jan 0.38%

4/2 0800/1000 CPI y/y Jan 6.16%

4/2 0800/1000 PPI m/m Jan -0.12%

4/2 0800/1000 PPI y/y Jan 2.45%

*7/2 1530/1730 Treasury cash balance Jan -10.3b

*8/2 0800/1000 Industrial production Dec +11.3%

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11

*ISTANBUL - Ciner Group conglomerate TO sign a $1.35 billion

deal with China Tianchen Engineering Corporation to build the

world's biggest soda ash facility in Turkey (0800). Energy

Minister Taner Yildiz is scheduled to attend the signing

ceremony.

*ISTANBUL - Car maker Ford Otosan to hold its

annual assessment meeting (0830).

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12

*KIZILCAHAMAM, Turkey - MHP to hold party meeting. Until

Jan. 13.

*ANKARA - Academics hold protest against new draft of law

governing Higher Education Board, which oversees universities.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15

*ANKARA - Erdogan to chair meeting of Science and Technology

Board.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16

ISTANBUL - Delegation from European Committee for Prevention

of Torture to visit Ocalan at his prison on island of Imrali

south of Istanbul. Until Jan. 18.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

ANKARA - Next hearing in trial of former president Kenan

Evren and retired Air Force commander Tahsin Sahinkaya for

staging the Sept. 12, 1980, military coup.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18

*ISTANBUL - MIT Professor and political activist Noam

Chomsky to speak at Bogazici University on 'Turkey and the

Emerging World Order' at Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Freedom

of Expression and Human Rights.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22

ISTANBUL - MENA Steel Summit. Until Jan. 23.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1

ISTANBUL - Istanbul Chamber of Commerce releases January

inflation data for Turkey's biggest city.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

SILIVRI, Turkey - Next hearing in the trial of 44

pro-Kurdish journalists on charges related to supporting

terrorism.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27

ISTANBUL - Tight and Shale Gas Summit. Until Feb. 28

THURSDAY, MARCH 21

*ISTANBUL - Next hearing in Oda TV trial against journalists

on charges of maintaining links with coup conspirators.

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