FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said that the Philippines was checking information about the supposed presence of Turkish terrorists in the Philippines and the government appreciated the concern of the Turkish embassy.

“We are doing our own vetting or investigation together with agencies that have capability of doing that, so while the DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) does its own investigation we also make full use of the military and police and the national security intelligence apparatus,” Cayetano told reporters in a briefing after attending the Philippines and Laos Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC).

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