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.
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 shut down after July 15, failed coup attempt.
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.
He obtained a master's degree from Department of Economics at Istanbul University with a thesis titled “Energy Structure of Turkmenistan and Natural Gas”.