Abdülhamit Bilici

Abdülhamit Bilici (born 1970 in Erzurum)is a Turkish newspaper executive and, since 2015, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zaman. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of its English-language version, Today's Zaman. He was general director of Cihan News Agency and editor of Aksiyon Weekly Magazine.^[1]

He speaks English. Bilici is married and has two children.^[2]

Early life

Receiving primary school education in İstanbul and graduating from high school in Erzurum, Bilici had his BA from Political Sciences and International Relations Department of Bosporus University in 1993. He had a master's degree from Department of Economics at Istanbul University with the thesis titled “Energy Structure of Turkmenistan and Natural Gas”. He is currently a doctoral student at Department of International Relations at the same university. In addition, Bilici has MBA degree from Faculty of Management at Fatih University.^[3]

Career

Starting his career at Zaman daily as a correspondent, Bilici worked as an editor at Aksiyon Magazine between 1995-1997, as foreign news editor at Zaman Daily between 1998-2001, as general editor at Zaman Daily between 2002-2008 and as general director of Cihan News Agency and as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zaman Newspaper and is a columnist for Zaman and Today’s Zaman dailies.^[4][5] Writing mainly on foreign policy of Turkey and world politics, Bilici frequently shares his views at various local and international television programs.^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Bibliography

Bilici edited a book titled “Why Turkey?” which combines different perspectives on Turkey-EU relations from both sides.^[11]

Bilici is a member of the Turkish Journalists Association (TGC), Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) and World Association of Newspapers (WAN).^[12]

External links

• Cihan Haber Ajansı Resmi Web Sitesi
• Abdülhamit Bilici on Facebook (Turkish Account)
• Abdülhamit Bilici on Twitter (Turkish Account)

Some of his columns published at Today’s Zaman

• Genes of Turkish media, clichés of the West
• What if Soma disaster had been in South Korea?
• Turkey's two new impasses
• Normalization with Armenian surrealism?
• Is Turkey detaching itself or is the West excluding it?
• What is the military’s place?

Some of his columns published at Zaman Daily

• Soma, Güney Kore’de olsaydı!
• Şimdi Hasan Cemal de New York Times da kötü oldu!
• Dış politika karnesi!

Some of TV programs and live broadcast he attended

• Habertürk 13 Mart 2014 - Abdülhamit Bilici
• 7 Mart 2014 CNN TURK - KARŞI GÜNDEM - Abdülhamit Bilici
• 13 Mart Bugun TV Güne Bakiş Abdülhamit Bilici
• 23 Aralık 2013 Sky News Sky News Abdülhamit Bilici
• SamanyoluHaber Abdulhamit Bilici -03 Nisan 2014 - Yerel seçim sonrası Köşk seçim seneryoları
• Syria's civil war?
• CNN TURK, Cihan Haber Ajansı 2014 seçim çalışmaları
• Dutch daily Volkskrant interview Bilici on tension in Turkish politics:

References