Editors’ Picks: What if Erdogan loses Turkey’s election?

Plus: The critical minerals club [Foreign Policy Logo]( [Foreign Policy Editors Picks]( April 14, 2023 | [View in browser]( To read unlimited articles featured in Editors’ Picks, [subscribe today](. 1 [Act of God?]( with his opponent’s commanding lead, it seems hard to believe that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will lose next month’s election, FP’s Steven A. Cook [writes](. 2 [Sidestepping reliance.]( spent decades building its critical mineral industry. The United States and its allies face an uphill battle to decouple from it, FP’s Christina Lu [reports](. 3 [Deafening dissonance.]( World Bank’s undemocratic governance culture means that it never faces accountability about its own work and impact around the world, FP’s Howard W. French [writes](. 4 [Fraying relations.]( spike in fentanyl trafficking from Mexico to the United States is on the brink of becoming a full-fledged diplomatic crisis, FP’s Rocio Fabbro and Robbie Gramer [report](. 5 [No answer.]( the absence of EU regulation, governments in Hungary, Poland, and Spain are using spyware to target journalists and political opponents, FP’s Clara Gutman-Argemí [reports](. --------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORED [Gelber Awarded to Susan Shirk]( [Gelber Awarded to Susan Shirk]( The 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize has been awarded to Susan L. Shirk for Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise (Oxford University Press). [Register for the Gelber Prize Ceremony on April 25, 2023, presented by the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy](. --------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW FP ON This email was sent to {EMAIL} because you are subscribed to FP’s Editors' Picks newsletter. Want a friend to receive this newsletter? [Forward it]( now. Want to receive other FP newsletters? [Manage]( your FP newsletter preferences. [unsubscribe]( | [privacy policy]( | [contact us]( | [partner with FP]( Foreign Policy magazine is a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2023 Graham Digital Holding Company. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 655 15th St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005. [Link](