Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, August 26th. This is your FT news briefing.

Turkish troops are pulling out of Afghanistan while Turkey's president said he doesn't want

his country to be a refugee warehouse. And we'll look at the latest wave of money laundering penalties

on banks. Plus a platform that allows porn stars to make money by selling their videos and other

content of fans banned sexually explicit content. Then it reversed that ban. We'll talk about what

happened. They have angered a lot of content creators who say that they now know they can't

rely on only fans because they realize now that the platform can kick them out at any moment.

A Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Turkey yesterday said it's begun to withdraw its troops from Kabul airport. The country had offered

to keep a battalion there to secure Afghanistan's link to the outside world. Apparently that offer

was rescinded. Meanwhile, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made it clear he doesn't want to

take in any more Afghan refugees. Turkey's already home to the world's largest population of refugees,

including 300,000 Afghans who've come in recent years. There's also more than 3.5 million

Syrians in the country. Erdogan now faces a growing political backlash against migrants. He also

faces criticism for his handling of the economy and this summer's wildfires, which forced thousands

of Turks to flee their homes. Global money laundering has surged. And banks have tried to crack

down on criminals trying to hide ill-gotten money in their institutions, but it's unclear

if new measures are having any effect. But what is clear is that regulators are getting tougher

with anti-money laundering penalties. According to the risk consultancy

crawl in the first half of this year, authorities levied almost a billion dollars in anti-money

laundering or AML fines. Now, banks have had a long time to improve these systems. You know,

they've spent billions of dollars. They've hired hundreds of people. They've put in expensive

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