"I really have doubts about his ability, " says Mely Cabalero-Anthony, a Kuala Lumpur-based specialist in Southeast Asian affairs.

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The Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau, for example, have fomented some hysteria by publishing dozens of agitprop articles, some by Mely Kiyak, a first-generation German whose parents were Turkish-Kurdish immigrants.

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