Alptekin Dursunoğlu, editor-in-chief of the analytical news website Yakın Doğu Haber (Near East News) and a senior political analyst, is author of many best-sellers about the Middle East and northern Africa. Among these bestselling books are Proxy War in Syria, World War IV and the Middle East, and Zero Achievement in Syria and Strategic Event (A history of Turkish-Israeli relations). His books topped the list of bestsellers for weeks.