Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami
A visiting Iranian Oil Ministry delegation has reportedly escaped a terrorist attack on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, unscathed.
The delegation's vehicle was attacked by gunmen on Wednesday.
The Iranian delegation is unharmed and the attack has not changed their itinerary, Iranian Oil Ministry website Shana reported.
Headed by Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami, the mission is in Iraq to discuss the Islamic Republic's potential long-term exports of diesel and other oil products to its western neighbor.
The attack took place after the delegation met with officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and was heading to the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity.
Tehran would be exporting some three million liters (792,500 gallons) of diesel for Iraq's power stations on a daily basis, should the visit result in an agreement.
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Iraq, Iran, to sign agreement soon to settle their suspended problems
6/22/2011 1:22 PM
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, has said on Wednesday that Iran and Iraq would sign an important agreement soon to overcome all the suspended problems between both countries.
“Iran and Iraq will soon sign an important agreement that will overcome all the suspended problems between the two countries,” the semi-official Iranian Mehr News Agency, quoted Zibary as saying during a meeting with the Chairman of the Iranian Shoura Council, Ali Larijany in Tehran on Tuesday night.
“Iran is playing a positive role in Iraq and there is no objection for the strengthening of relations between the two countries,” Zibary said, highly assessing the “assistance, granted by Iran to the Iraqi people.”
On his part, Larijany said that “the Iranian government would care for the fate of the Iraqi people, looking forward for the establishment of an independent, free and sovereign state in Iraq.”
Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, began an official visit to Iran on Tuesday, leading a high-level delegation, to discuss the political developments in the Region.
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Kuwaiti group seeks investment in Basra
6/19/2011 9:34 PM
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Basra's Investment Commission announced today that a Kuwaiti group visited its premises to show engineering designs for a number of projects, in addition to be acquainted for possible investment projects in the province.
Director of the Commission Haidar Ali Fadhil told Aswat al-Iraq that the delegation proposed a palm tree plantation, concrete factory, and 5-star hotel on Shatt al-Arab banks.
Both sides discussed possibilities of investing Iron and Steel Factory in the province as well as solving its hindrances.
Fadhil added that "proposed to them building a strategic recreational city with a space of 300 donums.
The group, BouKhamseen, is one of major 17 international companies specialized in housing, hotel building, infrastructure, water and oil, with big investments around the world.
Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce made a conference last April, during which Iraqi and Kuwaiti businessmen discussed means of investment and developing Iraqi-Kuwaiti economic and trade relations.
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Aswat Al Iraq / Economy , Basra
Basra Administration discusses building of 80,000 housing units with Korean Ambassador
6/22/2011 12:25 PM
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Chairman of the Investment Commission for southern Iraq’s city of Basra has called on Korean companies to study the city’s investment map and enter in competence to build 80,000 housing units in the city.
The said issue had been discussed in a meeting between Basra’s Investment Commission Chairman, Haider Ali Fadhel and Basra Governor, Khalaf Abdul-Samad with the South-Korean Ambassador to Baghdad, Skim Park and his accompanying delegation at Basra Council’s office, with the presence of its Assistant-Governors, Nizar al-Jabiry and Dr.
Ahmed al-Hassany.
“The housing sector in Basra is in need of participation by large foreign companies, in order to share in the construction of the 80,000 housing units project in Basra, being part of a national plan to build one million housing units in Iraq, along with the need of the Province to restore the Korean effort, after its suspension in the past period, due to the conditions that passed over Iraq,” Adul-Samad said in a statement, copy of which landed in Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Wednesday.
On his part, the South-Korean Ambassador pointed out towards his government’s efforts to create “a twinning between Basra and the Korean city of Osan, inviting Basra Governor to visit Korea in the nearest possible time.”
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FEATURE-For Baghdad's poor, city garbage brings in the bread
22 Jun 2011 16:45
Source: reuters // Reuters
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Iraqi teenagers walk in a rubbish dump in Sadr City, Baghdad, February 22, 2007. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem
* Collecting empty bottles, cans provides meagre living
* Garbage pickers in Baghdad dump are mainly children
* Despite oil potential, 23 pct of Iraqis still in poverty
By Aseel Kami
BAGHDAD, June 22 (Reuters) - Iraq's leaders hope the country's still largely untapped oil wealth can one day rival Saudi Arabia and provide a decent living to its citizens after years of conflict and chaos.
But for 12-year-old Abbas Mohammed and his family, it is used plastic bottles and empty aluminium cans that keep them alive. Mohammed spends his school summer holidays picking through a Baghdad garbage dump so he can sell the discarded items and help support his family.
In the refuse dump near Abbas's home in the Iraqi capital's impoverished district of Sadr City, men, women and children swarm over the stinking piles of garbage.
Mohammed, a slim boy dressed in grubby clothes, runs with other children to greet the arrival of trucks carrying fresh rubbish, waiting anxiously for them to unload so they can start raking through the refuse despite the smell and the dirt.
"We earn our living through this garbage," shrugged Mohammed, holding a big sack and a metal hook.
"We start work in the morning, we collect Pepsi cans, plastic bottles and then we sell them. I have been working in this place since I was three years old," he told Reuters.
Sadr City, a warren of narrow streets and low-built slums housing more than 3 million people, is a sprawling area of poverty east of the Tigris river in the Iraqi capital.
Once known as Saddam City, the Shi'ite stronghold suffered years of neglect under the Sunni-led government of Saddam Hussein, who was toppled in a 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Oil producer Iraq, which is still struggling to emerge from years of war, chaos and sectarian bloodshed triggered by the invasion, has an official unemployment rate of 15 percent and another 28 percent of the workforce are in part-time jobs.
Despite its huge untapped oil and gas reserves and steadily rising oil output and revenue, 23 percent of the population live below the poverty line, according to the Ministry of Planning.
For Mohammed, life in Sadr City means long days during his school holidays scrabbling through the refuse in the scorching summer heat before selling his daily haul to a middleman.
He sells each kilogram (2.2 lb) of plastic bottles or soda cans for 250 Iraqi dinars (around 20 U.S. cents), earning between 2,000 to 4,000 dinars ($1.50-$3) a day.
His mother and one of his brothers work with him in and around Sadr City. The three of them bring in around $250 to $400 a month, meagre earnings to support a large family. The brothers only work during school holidays, but other children at the dump have left school behind to work full-time gathering garbage.
Mohammed's mother, Zubaida Khazaal, a mother of 12, said they were obliged to be garbage pickers because they are poor and her husband is unemployed because he cannot work.
"We do not have anything, we live in a mud house and my husband is sick," said Khazaal who wore an improvished cloth mask against the stench as she emptied a sack of bottles.
"We wish the government could help us."
CHILDREN MOST VULNERABLE
Popular anger over power outages, food ration shortages, corruption and government ineffectiveness is heating up the political climate in Iraq as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's shaky cross-sectarian coalition considers whether to ask U.S. troops to stay on past an end-year withdrawal deadline.
Sadr City is a powerbase for Moqtada al-Sadr, a fiercely anti-American Shi'ite cleric whose Mehdi Army insurgents once battled U.S. and Iraqi troops during the peak of the sectarian conflict in 2006-2007. He opposes U.S. troops staying on and has threatened "military resistance" if they do.
Security officials expect insurgents and militias to try to test Iraq's forces when the U.S. troops prepare to leave.
As Iraq battles to emerge from the ruins of war, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF estimates nearly a quarter of Iraq's children -- over three million youngsters, the most vulnerable group in society -- scrape by on an income of less than $2.20 a day. One child in nine is working.
A recent International Labour Organization report listing dangerous jobs in which children are engaged across the world mentioned collecting garbage as one of the activities in which minors risked suffering violence and injury. [ID:nLDE75824P]
Mohammed wears a glove over his left hand to protect himself from sharp objects in the dump and his mother says she fears he could catch a disease. But she says she needs him to work.
At a location near the dump, a middleman supervises the ,toperation of a machine which compresses the plastic bottles into a wire-wrapped pack weighing around 300 kg (660 lbs).
The package will be sold to an Iraqi trader who exports the packs of plastic to Turkey and Syria. No industry has existed in Iraq to recycle bottles and cans, business experts say.
In Baghdad, the trade for export is a lifeline: "There are no jobs, so what else can I do but this. A lot of families depend on this business," said Haider Muhsin, 36, as he stood by the machine compacting plastic bottles.
Iraq has around 40,000 private small and medium-sized factories, but 90 percent of them are idle, said Hashim al-Atrakchi, chairman of the Iraqi Federation of Industries.
The 10 percent, or 4,000, which are functioning are not at full capacity after years of war and economic sanctions put in place two decades ago after Saddam invaded Kuwait.
Plastic manufacturing is patchy partly because many industries are just restarting and also require a stable supply of electricity. Iraq's national power sector is still in ruins and coping with frequent outages is a hefty business expense.
From the garbage heap of Sadr City, however, Mohammed dreams of a better future, when he can quit his garbage-picking job and spend more time on school work: "I want to complete my studies," he said, "And become a teacher."
(Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Alastair Macdonald)
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Iraq's Proposed New Labour Laws
Posted on 23 June 2011
When tacking the problems of unemployment and illegal work practices, Iraq has a difficult balancing act to achieve.
On one hand, a civilised country cannot accept a situation where foreign labourers are tricked by traffickers to get them into the country illegally, and then told their pay will be a fraction of the minimum wage of $600 per month.
On the other hand, blanket quotas and restrictions on foreign workers increase the problems faced by legitimate businesses and workers, and slow the pace of development.
Iraq's parliament is considering new laws to limit foreign workers by forcing employers to hire at least as many Iraqis.
Legislation, of course, is only followed by the law abiding, and will not concern those who already operate outside the system. And as labour minister Nasser al-Rubaie points out, the problem is by no means unique to Iraq.
But imposing an arbitrary 50% limit on foreign workers, regardless of their conditions, is unlikely to solve Iraq's problems of unemployment and exploitation.
And remember that wherever your business is based, Upper Quartile and AAIB are here to help you. For more information please contact Gavin Jones or Adrian Shaw.
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American companies discuss potential of investment in Basra
6/24/2011 5:24 PM
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: The U.S.
Commercial Attaché discussed with Basra's Investment Commission the real investment atmosphere in the province during a joint conference between the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and the Iraqis.
The discussions concentrated on cooperation to create a stage of partnership between local and American companies.
The head of Basra's Investment Commission Haidar Ali Fadhil declared that the U.S.
delegation acquainted itself with the investment opportunities in the province through detailed studies.
He added that the conference was attended by eight American companies specialized in the fields of energy, industry, financing and others.
Fadhil disclosed that the province has two billion dollars allocated for infrastructure projects, which is available to all for establishing different projects.
He pointed out that many American companies were granted investment permissions, which working, now, in the vicinity of the city without foreign security protection.
On the other side, Basra's Governor Advisor for Housing Ali Abdul Kareem said that "local companies do not have the necessary expertise for bigger projects, particularly in the construction sector.
In addition, local companies lack modern equipment and suitable financing, and we therefore rely on the foreign investor."
He pointed to the importance of security stability in the province, which is a vital attraction factor for foreign companies.
"This is characterized with the participation of Chinese, Korean and Turkish companies in the province's projects," he elaborated.
A Global Capital International representative declared that his company began its work in Baghdad one a year ago in the Baghdad stock exchange and financial market.
"The main objective of the conference is to find real partnership between American and Iraqi companies in different fields," a member of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, Jason Seer, said.
He pointed out that Basra's governor expected a real economic development in the province, which could be ideal for U.S.
companies for their good quality products.
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Iran to supply Iraq with gas oil to keep power stations running
23/06/2011 15:20
http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/248154/
Baghdad, June 23 (AKnews) – Iran will supply Iraq with 1.5 million liters of gas oil in order to keep the country's power stations running, it was announced today.
The Iraqi Electricity Ministry said in May that a number of power stations may have to halt power production this summer due to a lack of sufficient fuel.
The fuel will be sold at market rate for one year.
Ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudarres said: "The imported fuel from Iran will generate 250 megawatts and this will contribute in solving part of the energy crisis in the country."
Although Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves in the world, it lacks enough refineries to even provide enough fuel for its domestic market.
There is a significant power deficit in Iraq with frequent black-outs and periods of planned power stoppages. Demonstrations erupted across Iraq in February to call for the provision of better public services. More consistent electrical power was one of the protesters' main demands.
Iraq’s current output is 9000 MW, but demand often hits around 14000 MW. During the summer months, with temperatures soaring as high as 50C and air conditioners on full-blast, the electrical grid cannot handle the country's needs.
It was announced in May that the network would be boosted by 380 MW by the end of this month by the updating of the grid and improvements to power stations.
By Jaafar al-Wannan
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Ministry: Oil imports hinder Iraqi power generation
28/06/2011 14:43
http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/249038/
Baghdad, June 28 (AKnews) –Half of the 800 million liters of oil Iraqi power stations burn up each day to meet domestic electricity demand is imported, says the Ministry of Electricity.
Ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudarres told AKnews that 400m liters are provided by the Ministry of Oil while the remainder is imported from Iraq’s neighbors; Kuwait and Iran.
The imported oil – constituting 50% of the ministry’s needs – poses a number of problems for the ministry, Mudarres explained.
“The ministry encounters administrative and bureaucratic obstacles that hinder the timely arrival of imported fuel at the power stations,” he complained.
In May, a number of Iraq’s power plants were shut down because of the late delivery of the oil necessary to keep them running.
In response, the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity set up a special committee to oversee the provision of fuel needed to meet rising domestic electricity demand during the summer months when temperatures often rise above 50 degrees Celsius.
The government is currently plowing money into the country’s electricity generating sector in a bid to meet the 14,000 mw needed.
With Iraq’s current generating capacity not exceeding 8,000 mw, many Iraqi homes and businesses remain without national grid power for several hours each day.
The poor provision of electricity was a central gripe in the wave of public protests that swept through the Iraqi provinces earlier this year.
Iraq’s power stations and distribution networks – already in poor repair after three decades of economic sanctions and successive wars - were further damaged during the 2003 allied invasion of the country and subsequent insurgent acts of sabotage.
The government estimates that annual investments of between $3bn -$4bn are needed to rehabilitate and update the country’s grid and power generating plants.
Reported by Jaafar al-Wannan
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Iraq approves $365 million gas pipe deal with Iran
Posted by Staff WriterBudget & Investment, Middle-EastThursday, June 30th, 2011
http://www.nogtec.com/regional-news/middle-east/iraq-approves-365-million-gas-pipe-deal-with-iran/
Iraq’s cabinet has approved a $365 million contract with Iran’s oil ministry to build a pipeline to move gas from Iran to Iraq for power generation, it said.
The pipeline will pass through Iraq’s Mansuriyah gas field near the Iranian border in volatile Diyala province and will feed two power plants; one in Sadr City in northern Baghdad and another on the northern outskirts of the capital.
The pipeline was to be completed in 18 months, the Electricity Ministry said when it signed a memorandum of understanding for the project in May.
The ministers also approved the first payment for the project, 25 percent of the total value of the contract, the cabinet said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
Iraq has struggled for years with power shortages. More than eight years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraqis receive only a few hours of electricity a day from the national grid.
The shortage was a key complaint during recent nationwide protests. The Opec member is trying to step up its own gas production and signed an initial contract with South Korean group Kogas, Kuwait Energy Company, and Turkey’s state-owned TPAO last year to develop the Mansuriyah natural gas field.
Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands were killed. Ties have improved since Saddam was ousted by the US invasion and a xxxxx-led government came to power in Iraq.
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Basra Investments Commission demands lands for oil
9/27/2011 10:28 AM
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Southern Iraq’s Basra Province’s Investment Commission has discussed with officials of the state-owned Southern Oil Company to reach means of joint cooperation, in order to achieve “logistic” projects for investment by foreign investment companies for the achievement of new oil projects.
“The Chairman of Basra Investment Commission, Khalaf al-Badran, has discussed with the Director of the Southern Oil Company means for joint cooperation to get further oil territories for their logistic investment chances, along with coordination with foreign investment companies to achieve logistic support for the oil companies,” the Commission’s media source reported on Tuesday.
Badran said that three leading international companies have expressed wish to build projects to store oil and fuel transportation close to oil terminals and to hammer down the obstacles and to coordinate with the Iraqi State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) to conclude agreements to ship and store fuel and establish new oil service projects.
The source said that the Director of the Southern Oil Company, Dhia al-Moussawi, has expressed readiness for cooperation with the Investment Commission and to offer investment opportunities by his company by foreign investment companies.
“The said plan shall be a promising marketing for the oil pipelines, due to the need of the Oil Ministry to expand oil pipelines in Iraq, whilst the local manufacture of such projects would be more economic,” he added.
Iraq’s Oil Ministry or its Southern Oil Company are in control on the majority of Basra’s territories, according to the Law on Projection of Hydrocarbon Fortunes, issued in Iraq in the 1980s.
Basra, the center of Basra Province, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad
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Iraqi City to Expel Turkish Firms Over Accusations of Sectarianism
A man smokes a water pipe at a floating cafe on a ferry docked on the shores of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, May 24, 2011. (photo by REUTERS/Atef Hassan)
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By: Ahmad Wahid posted on Monday, Apr 30, 2012
The city of Basra (the capital of the al-Basra province in southern Iraq) has threatened to halt Turkish construction and investment projects in the province after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a statement accusing his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki of fomenting sectarianism.
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The Iraqi city of Basra has threatened to expel a number of Turkish construction firms in response to Turkish PM Erdogan’s accusations that Iraqi PM al-Maliki was fomenting sectarian tensions. Ahmad Wahid reports that the city’s administration is affiliated with the Iraqi PM’s party, and that Japanese and Korean firms are expected to fill the void.
Publisher: Al-Hayat (Pan Arab)
Original Title:
The Basra Government Threatens to Stop Working with Turkish Companies to Stop Dealing with Them in Response to Erdogan’s Accusing Maliki of Sectarianism
Author: Ahmad Wahid
Published on: Friday, Apr 27, 2012
Translated On: Monday, Apr 30, 2012
Translator: Naria Tanoukhi
Categories: Politics Analysis & Opinion Iraq Turkey
The State of Law Coalition, which is headed by Maliki, controls Basra. Coalition members fill the posts of governor and head of the Provincial Council of Basra, in addition to most parliamentary seats.
The head of the Basra Provincial Council, Sabah al-Bazouni, told Al-Hayat: “After the recent statements that have targeted the top of the Iraqi state, we received requests from members of the council demanding that pressure be exerted on Turkey to change its position on the political process.” He explained that “the pressure will be exerted be through suspending the projects of Turkish companies.” He added that “many Turkish companies are operating and have investments in Basra. We must have some role in responding to Turkey’s interferences into the affairs of the central government, which we see as our administrative reference.”
He continued: “The Turkish government should have known that political statements targeting Iraq and its sovereignty would affect the relationship between the two countries, especially in terms of construction and investment.”
Turkish companies are working in construction projects in Iraq, including the Basra Sports City project, health institutions, road development and international exhibitions. There are almost 80 Turkish firms operating in Basra.
Nujaifi sees Turkey as Mosul’s gate to the world. He notes that Turkey’s development and its attainment of the European standards serves as a guide for them and that they want to benefit from Turkey’s experience. For this reason, the Mosul (Ninawa) Governor’s Office, in conjunction with the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, is holding a Mosul Investment Conference in İstanbul on May 2-3.
The distance between Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and Mosul is a one-hour drive. The KRG relies on the advantage of being a federal region. Welfare, prosperity, stability and foreign capital… The semi-autonomous Kurdish region receives 17 percent of the oil revenues of Iraq. The number of Turkish firms has exceeded 2,500 in the region. Mosul, on the other hand, the second-largest city of Iraq after Baghdad, is far away from its glorious past. It is unable to deal with poverty. It fails to attract foreign capital. In comparison to the Kurdish region, the number of Turkish firms is just 11.
These threats come at a time when Basra (304 miles south of Baghdad) has signed a dual contract with South Korea. Basra also invited Japanese companies to come and replace the ousted Turkish firms.
Khalaf Abd-al-Samad, the governor of the city of Basra, was quoted warning Japanese companies against "partnering with Turkish companies because of Turkey's interference in Iraq's internal affairs, and the failure of Turkish companies to execute a few projects.” The statement added: “Turkish companies have failed to execute certain projects in the province, which reinforces the position of the government.” It is interesting to note that Basra previously threatened to become an administrative region independent from Baghdad, criticizing the government's performance in the field of reconstruction.
Erdogan accused Maliki of fomenting sectarian tensions. Maliki responded by calling Turkey an "enemy state."
Ankara summoned the Iraqi charge d'affaires on Tuesday, April 24, a day after Baghdad summoned the Turkish ambassador.
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KEY INDICATORS
DATE GMT/LOCAL INDICATOR PERIOD PRIOR
21/5 1430/1730 Debt stock April 519.9b
22/5 1130/1430 CPI forecast 2 week N/A
24/5 1130/1430 Manufacturing conf May 116.0
24/5 1130/1430 Capacity usage May 74.7%
29/5 1100/1400 Interest rates May 5.75%
25/5 0800/1100 Foreign visitors April -9.72%
1/6 0800/1100 TIM Export Figures May $11.4b
4/6 0700/1000 CPI m/m May 1.52%
4/6 0700/1000 CPI y/y May 11.14%
4/6 0700/1000 PPI m/m May 0.08%
4/6 0700/1000 PPI y/y May 7.65%
8/6 0700/1000 Industrial production April +2.4%
8/6 1430/1730 Treasury cash balance May -4.57b
7/6 1130/1430 CPI forecast 2 week N/A
11/6 0700/1000 Current account April -6.1b
*15/6 0700/1000 Unemployment Feb-April 10.4%
*15/6 0800/1100 Budget balance May +1.4b
THURSDAY, MAY 17
*ANKARA - President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan to meet Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister
Nechirvan Barzani in separate meetings.
*ANKARA - Erdogan to meet European Union Enlargement
Commissioner Stefan Fuele.
*ANKARA - Erdogan to separately meet Gul and Chief of
General staff General Necdet Ozel.
*ANKARA - Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin, EU Minister
Egemen Bagis and Fuele to hold a joint news conference. (1100)
ISTANBUL - Istanbul World Political Forum meeting to bring
together global and Turkish leaders. Until May 18.
*ISTANBUL - Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci to speak at
summit on Islamic finance. (0930)
ANKARA - Deadline to submit bids for privatisation of 20
percent stake of Ankara gas grid, owned by Ankara Municipality.
FRIDAY, MAY 18
*ANKARA - Gul to depart for United States to attend NATO
summit in Chicago.
*SOFIA - Erdogan to visit Bulgaria.
SUNDAY, MAY 20
*CHICAGO - Gul to attend NATO summit. Until May 21.
MONDAY, MAY 21
ANKARA - Central Bank to hold meeting with economists.
TUESDAY, MAY 22
ISLAMABAD - Erdogan to visit Pakistan.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
ASTANA - Erdogan to visit Kazakhstan. Until May 24.
TUESDAY, MAY 29
*ISTANBUL - Next hearing in trial of Fenerbahce Chairman
Aziz Yildirm and 92 other defendants in alleged soccer
match-fixing case.
ANKARA - Central Bank to hold monthly monetary policy
committee meeting.
MONDAY, JUNE 4
ISTANBUL - World Economic Forum on Europe, Middle East,
North Africa and Central Asia to focus on reform and inclusive
growth. Until June 6.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
SILIVRI, Turkey - Hearing in trial of 365 defendants, almost
all serving and retired military officers, charged in alleged
2003 plot, dubbed "Sledgehammer," to overthrow government.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21
ANKARA - Turkish Central Bank to hold monthly monetary
policy committee meeting.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29
*ANKARA - Next hearing in trial of former president Kenan
Evren, 94, and retired Air Force commander Tahsin Sahinkaya, 86,
for executing Sept. 12, 1980, military coup.
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