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Memory. >> i would say two things, joe. turkey itself, even though it's formally an ally, in real life, it is anything but a partner of the united states. we ought to treat turkey can at best as a semi hostile country. we ought to have zero illusions about mr. erdogan's turkey. the real test is yet to come. sitting in pennsylvania is fatullah gulan who the turks believe organized a coup. if the united states ever is willing to cough up mr. g aulan that will tell us a lot. so that, to me, is more than anything else the test case.

>> are you saying this is a component of the increasing campaign against secularism by islamists? >> absolutely. and i think if erdogan had his way, there's nothing he would like more than just to have out in the open an islamic governance of turkey. and that's really what we're seeing, i think, a lot within the middle east right now. and it started with, you know, certainly in cairo a few years ago. it is that sectarian versus secular governance and that's a debate we've been seeing for a hundred years, but erdogan, to be honest, the only reason he let in after the isis atrocities within turk...

full face veil in france says she actually wanted the punishment. she was one of two women fined under the country's so-called burqa ban on thursday. she'll take her case to the european court of human rights. i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i'm nina dos santos. >> good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i'm manisha tank. these are the top stories on friday, september 23rd. investors in europe take a breather after a tumultuous few days for global stock markets. >> as u.s. consumers keep their money in their wallets, the swap sho...

>> are you saying this is a component of the increasing campaign against secularism by islamists? >> absolutely. and i think if erdogan had his way, there's nothing he would like more than just to have out in the open an islamic governance of turkey. and that's really what we're seeing, i think, a lot within the middle east right now. and it started with, you know, certainly in cairo a few years ago. it is that sectarian versus secular governance and that's a debate we've been seeing for a hundred years, but erdogan, to be honest, the only reason he let in after the isis atrocities within turk...