What is Udo Ulfkotte?
[[File:Udo Ulfkotte bei Pegida.jpg|thumb|250px|Ulfkotte in January 2015]] '''Udo Konstantin Ulfkotte''' (20 January 1960 &ndash; 13 January 2017) was a [[Germans|German]] [[journalist]] and [[political scientist]]. He was an assistant editor for the main daily [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]] newspaper, ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' (''FAZ''). Between 1986 and 1998, Ulfkotte lived in the [[Middle East]] mostly, inlcuding [[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Oman]], [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]]. He was became a [[Muslim]] while living in Afghanistan. He later became a [[Born again (Christianity)|born-again Christian]]. He later held [[conservative]] and anti-Muslim views and was against [[immigration]]. He was born in [[Lippstadt]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] (then in [[West Germany]]). Ulfkotte died from a [[heart attack]] on 13 January 2017 at the age of 56.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/udo-ulfkotte-umstrittener-publizist-und-ehemaliger-faz-journalist-ist-tot-a-1130008.html|title=Udo Ulfkotte: Umstrittener Publizist und ehemaliger FAZ-Journalist ist tot|language=de|work=[[Spiegel Online]]|date=14 January 2017|access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulfkotte, Udo}} [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:German journalists]] [[Category:German Protestants]] [[Category:German political scientists]] [[Category:Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia]] {{Bio-stub}}