The day after Thai Police claimed that a chief suspect in the Aug. 17 Bangkok bombing had fled to Turkey, Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Ankara still awaits official notification, Anadolu agency reported.
"We have not officially received any information about this subject from Thailand," Tanju Bilgic, the ministry's spokesperson, told press during a weekly briefing in Ankara on Tuesday.
"Our ambassador has delivered a diplomatic note investigating if this information is true or not to Thailand's Foreign Ministry by going there this morning. We are doing the necessary search for it."
The incident is the third this month in which a Turkish official has highlighted what appears to be an apparent betrayal of diplomatic protocol by Thailand's military government.
Bilgic underlined Tuesday that Turkey could only investigate a suspect after receiving information from the country concerned.
"We are in contact with the Thailand ambassador in Ankara. I cannot say anything about whether this suspect has entered in Turkey or not, based on some media reports."