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.