Abdülhamit Bilici

Abdülhamit Bilici (born 1970 in Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist and media executive. Bilici was once one of the prominent and influential media figures in Turkey, as the last editor-in-chief of Zaman, the country’s most widely circulated newspaper[1] and the CEO of the Feza Publications which ranked 244th[2] among top 500 companies according to Istanbul Chamber of Industry's ISO500.[3] Prior to that, he was the general director of Cihan News Agency, once the nation’s second largest news agency and also columnist of both Zaman daily and its English-language version, Today's Zaman. Bilici's newspapers were taken over by Erdogan government with a brutal raid[4][5] on March 5, 2016 and the Feza Media Group was shutdown after July 15, failed coup attempt. In these circumstances, he was forced into exile under the threat of an arrest warrant.

Abdülhamit Bilici
NationalityTurkish
Other namesTwitter: @ahamitbilici
Alma materBoğaziçi University
Occupation(s)Journalist, Writer

Bilici is an expert on Turkish politics and continues his journalism career by writing freelance articles for various media outlets,[6][7][8][9][10] lectures at different universities and speaks at conferences related to press freedom and Turkey's domestic and foreign policy. Recently, He has spoken in conferences in more than 20 states in America and is a frequent commentator on television channels such as BBC, CBS, Al Jazeera, and Sky News, among others.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

He speaks English. Bilici is married and has two children.[17]

Early life

Bilici attending primary school education in İstanbul and graduated from high school in Erzurum. He read for a BA in Political Sciences and International Relations Department at Bosporus University in 1993. He obtained a master's degree from Department of Economics at Istanbul University with a thesis titled “Energy Structure of Turkmenistan and Natural Gas”. He is currently a doctoral student at Department of International Relations at the same university. Bilici also has MBA degree from Faculty of Management at Fatih University.[18]

Career

Starting his career at Zaman as a correspondent, Bilici worked as an editor at Aksiyon.[19] between 1995–1997, as foreign news editor at Zaman 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. He is a columnist for Zaman and Today's Zaman dailies.[20][21] He writes mainly on Turkish foreign policy and world politics. He is a frequent speaker on local and international television programs.[22][23][24][25][26] Bilici is the editor of the book "Why Turkey?", which features different perspectives on Turkey-European Union relations.[11]

Bibliography

Bilici edited a book titled “Why Turkey?” which combines different perspectives on Turkey-EU relations from both sides.[27]

Bilici is a member of the Turkish Journalists Association (TGC), Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) and World Association of Newspapers (WAN).[28]

Some of his published articles
  • How corruption destroys a democracy: The case of Turkey under Erdogan[7]
  • Turkey, a U.S. ally, muzzles the media[8]
  • « En s’en prenant à mon journal ’Zaman’, Erdogan plonge le pays dans la psychose »[6]
  • Bilici: Turkey's Erdogan shows why we must care about press freedom[9]
  • Abdulhamit Bilici: how Turkey lost its largest newspaper[10]
  • Genes of Turkish media, clichés of the West
  • Dutch daily Volkskrant interview Bilici on tension in Turkish politics:
  • 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 he attended

References
  1. "BPA AUDIT FIGURES REVEAL TURKISH NEWSPAPER AS HAVING ONE OF THE LARGEST SUBSCRIBER BASES IN EUROPE | ClickPress". Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  2. "Marka Detay – İSO 500 | Türkiye'nin 500 Büyük Sanayi Kuruluşu". www.iso500.org.tr. Archived from the original on 2020-09-12. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  3. "Home Page – İSO 500 | Türkiye'nin 500 Büyük Sanayi Kuruluşu". www.iso500.org.tr. Archived from the original on 2020-09-12. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  4. "Police raid offices of popular critical newspaper in Turkey after government seizure". Youtube.
  5. "The largest newspaper of Turkey, Zaman, brutally taken over by Erdogan government". Youtube.
  6. "En s'en prenant à mon journal 'Zaman', Erdogan plonge le pays dans la psychose". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  7. Bilici, Abdülhamit (2020-03-14). "How corruption destroys a democracy: The case of Turkey under Erdogan". The Investigative Journal. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  8. Bilici, Abdulhamit (July 25, 2017). "Turkey, a U.S. ally, muzzles the media". Miami Herald.
  9. Bilici, Abdülhamit. "Bilici: Turkey's Erdogan shows why we must care about press freedom". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  10. Freedom, European Centre for Press and Media. "Abdulhamit Bilici: how Turkey lost its largest newspaper". European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. Archived from the original on 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  11. "Why Press Freedom Matters: Story of an Exiled Turkish Journalist". UCCS Events Calendar. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  12. "A warning from and for a troubled land". The Denver Post. 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  13. "Turkish journalist visits Bowers, group discusses political corruption". The Etownian. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  14. "Exiled Turkish journalist to speak Oct. 18 at WKU". Department of Music. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  15. "Human Rights Violations in the Absence of Independent Media". wnypeace.org. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  16. Alian, V. P. "Turkey's Struggle for Democracy & Press Freedom – A View from the Inside". wachouston.org. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  17. "Inside Story – Syria's civil war – al jazeera English – Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  18. "Habertürk 13 Mart 2014 – Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  19. "Aksiyon". aksiyon.com.tr. Archived from the original on 2014-07-17.
  20. "Abant Platformu 2. gününde AB sürecini konuştu: Darbe zihniyetinden kurtulmak için AB'yi istiyoruz". salihsarikaya.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-19.
  21. "Cihan Haber Ajansı Künye". Cihan.com.tr. Archived from the original on 2014-07-04.
  22. "23 Aralık 2013 Sky News Sky News Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  23. "Syria's civil war? – Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  24. "7 Mart 2014 CNN TURK – KARŞI GÜNDEM – Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  25. "13 Mart Bugun TV Güne Bakiş Abdülhamit Bilici". youtube.com.
  26. "Dutch daily Volkskrant interview Bilici on tension in Turkish politics". youtube.com.
  27. "Neden Türkiye – Why Turkey".
  28. "GYV.com.tr". gyv.com.tr. Archived from the original on 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  29. CBS (May 13, 2012). "Forging an Islamic democracy". Youtube.
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