Bilal Bilici
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Bilal Bilici (born 1984) is a Turkish politician. He is elected to parliament in 2023 general election from Adana as a Good Party member.
Biography
[edit]He was born in 1984 in Adana. His father is Mehmet Ali Bilici, a businessman and politician who served three terms as an Adana deputy in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.[1] He completed his higher education in the Department of Economics at Boston University.
He worked as a consultant in the Boston office of Ernst & Young and Accenture. He worked in the oil and petrochemical industry in Dubai.
In Turkey, he served on the Board of Directors of Bilici Holding. He continued his Master's program in Global Politics and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University. His thesis titled "The rise of populism and the radical right in European politics: The case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)" (2020) and received his master's degree.[2]
In 2020, he joined the Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation.[3] He took part in the Foreign Economic Relations Board under the Ministry of Economy. In 2021, he was appointed Honorary Consul of Guatemala in Istanbul. He took part in the board of directors of the World Honorary Consuls Association, which includes honorary consuls working in Turkey and affiliated to the Republic of Turkey.[4]
In 2022, he was appointed as the advisor to the chairman of the Good Party's US representation.[5]
In the 2023 Turkish general elections, he was elected as an MP from Adana from the Good Party.
On 15 May 2024, he resigned from Good Party.[6] On 20 August 2024 he joined to Republican People's Party.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Adanalı işadamı İYİ Parti ABD temsilcisi oldu". Küçük Saat (in Turkish). 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "Bilal Bilici, İyi Parti Adana Milletvekili Adayı". bilalbilici.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "Marmara Vakfı Grubu | Marmara Grubu Stratejik ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Vakfı | Marmara Grubu Vakfı'na Genç Katılım". www.marmaragrubu.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "DFKD – Dünya Fahri Konsoloslar Derneği" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ Önal, Barış (2022-12-24). "İYİ Parti Washington'da resmi temsilcilik açtı". Tele1 (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "İYİ Partili Milletvekili Bilal Bilici istifa etti". Yeniçağ Gazetesi (in Turkish). 2024-05-15. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "İYİ Parti'den istifa depremi! Bilal Bilici CHP'ye katıldı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2024-08-20. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
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