Main opposition CHP confident in its economic plan, calls on finance minister to join their team

Turkish main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has called Finance Minister Mehmet ?im?ek's bluff shortly after the latter said he would vote for the CHP if it could prove its ability to find the financial sources for promises K?l?çdaro?lu recently made as part of his party's election campaign. 

The quarrel between CHP head K?l?çdaro?lu and ?im?ek of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) took place on April 20, the day after the main opposition social democrat party outlined an ambitious election manifesto with concrete and holistic promises to end poverty, address the problems of the country's 17 million poor people and prioritize turning the country into a first-class democracy. 

K?l?çdaro?lu announced his party's manifesto under the title of "A Livable Turkey" and introduced his parliamentary candidates on April 19.

"Let them [the CHP] tell us which taxes they will increase, in which areas they will economize. If they are not able to make these, then from whom they will get loans and how will they fulfill these commitments without exploding the current account deficit and taking Turkey into a crisis? Then they would deserve the Nobel Prize," said ?im?ek in an interview aired live on CNN Türk.

"I'm saying it frankly: Let them show their sources. Then I would not only take my hat off to them, I would also say that I would vote for the CHP too," ?im?ek surprisingly said.

"Let them explicate only one-third of it [their sources], then I will vote for them," he reiterated. 

"I am the minister of finance. We know the situation of the budget very well. We would also like to win the election. Are we stupid? Why wouldn't we implement these [promises]? They either don't know how to...