# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdulhamit-bilici
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:32.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abdulhamit-bilici"
name: "Abdülhamit Bilici"
slug: "abdulhamit-bilici"
description: "Abdülhamit Bilici 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 and the CEO of the Feza Publications which ranked 244th among top 500 companies according to Istanbul Chamber of Industry's ISO500. 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 on March 5, 2016, and the Feza Media Group was shut down after July 15, failed coup attempt. In these circumstances, he was forced into exile under the threat of an arrest warrant."
tagline: "Turkish journalist (born 1970)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.23
  momentum:             1.373390557939914
  historical:           5.476206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ahamitbilici"
    handle:    "ahamitbilici"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%C3%BClhamit_Bilici"
    title: "Abdülhamit Bilici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "عبد الحميد بيليسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "ابدولهاميت بيليسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%C3%BClhamit_Bilici"
    title: "Abdülhamit Bilici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulhamit_Bilici"
    title: "Abdulhamit Bilici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%C3%BClhamit_Bilici"
    title: "Abdülhamit Bilici"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17361496"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump