TURKISH terrorists have reached the Philippines and are active in Mindanao using charity organizations and education institutions as fronts, Turkey’s Ambassador to Manila Esra Cankorur warned on Thursday. “It was not a traditional military coup, it was a group of people infiltrating into the Turkish armed forces,” she added. “This organization started as a religious cult but it turned into a terrorist organization in time,” Cankorur said. VettingForeign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday said the Philippine government was checking the information provided by the Turkish envoy. “The military is verifying the statement of Turkish Ambassador Esra Cankorur regarding the presence of Turkish terrorists, particularly the Fetullah Gulen Movement, in the Philippines,” Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a statement.

Source: Manila Times July 13, 2017 16:41 UTC