Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 18 February 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 18 February 1986

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

MISC 122 + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1030

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1040

Keep free to read briefs

1130

Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] [re Lobby system]

1215

Interview with Turkish TV [interviewer: Memmet Ali Birand]+ Mr. Horne and Mr. Powell

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1545

Gerald Howarth, M.P., Mr. Neil Hamilton, M.P., and Mr. Alison Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] [re libel action] H/C

1615-1640

Terence Higgins, M.P., + Mr. Alison H/C Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

Return to No. 10

1700

Prime Minister of Turkey arrives [Turgut Özal]

Talks

1800

Prime Minister of Turkey departs

1950

Prime Minister of Turkey returns to No. 10

1945 for 2000

Dinner for Prime Minister of Turkey + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]. Black Tie No.10 [THCR5/1/5/380 f37 has list: Turgut Özal, Mrs Özal, Zeki Yakuztürk, Ahmet Akgün Albayrak, George Younger, Kenneth Baker, Abdurrahman Demirtas, Ahmet Meaduh Yasa, Baroness Janet Young, Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo, Ecmel Barutcu, Lord Anthony Barber, Sir Anthony Kershaw, Ekram Pakdemirli, Jim Spicer, Admiral Sir James Eberle, Richard Hickmet, Yusef Bozkurt Özal, Sir Frederic Bennett, Bedrettin Dogancan Akyurek, Charles Powell, Brian Griffiths, George Blunden, Air Chief Marshal Sir David Craig]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary