TURKEY’S SNAP ELECTION: Opposition parties are trying to find a way to cooperate and defeat Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next month’s national election. Iyi Party candidate Meral Aksener (nickname “the she-wolf”) claims she is the only opposition leader who can beat Sultan Recep. The Republican Peoples Party (CHP, the Kemalist party) just named Muharrem Ince as its candidate. Ince is a dedicated secularist and a bitter critic of Erdogan. Stay tuned.