BERLIN (Reuters) - German intelligence officials are re-evaluating an influential Turkish expatriate group as, amid strains in relations between the two countries, they also step up wider efforts to clamp down on Islamist militancy.
The Milli Gorus group has close links to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and German officials consider its founders extremist. Its estimated 31,000 supporters have long been included on a list of potential Islamist threats published each year by the Interior Ministry.
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