Friday, 25 March 2011 - Ali Cinar-New York, Mehmet Ali Şahin, New York'ta Türk Kültür Merkezi ve Türk Amerikan Dernekleri Konseyi tarafından düzenlenen ''4. Geleneksel Dostluk Yemeğine'' onur konuğu olarak katıldı.
Programa , New York Senatoru Kristen Gillibrand, Philidalphia Senatoru, Bob Casey, New York Kongre Uyesi Ed Towns, NYPD Baskani Ray Kelly, New York Eyalet Meclisi Üyesi Steven Cymrowitz gibi isimlerde katildi.
TBMM Başkanı Mehmet Ali Şahin, ''Türkiye ve ABD'nin çok geniş bir coğrafyada, kritik önem taşıyan  konularda, kapsamlı bir işbirliği yürüten iki dost ve müttefik ülke olduğunu, ancak iki demokratik ülke aralarında zaman zaman görüş ayrılıklarının yaşanmasının da doğal olduğunu'' söyledi. Friday, 25 March 2011 -

Just weeks before general elections in Turkey, six leading members of an opposition party were forced to resign from Parliament on Saturday after sexually explicit videos of one of them were posted on the Internet.

The Web site that posted the videos had threatened to release others that it said showed the five other members who resigned.

The resignations could severely weaken the Nationalist Movement Party, the second largest opposition group in Parliament, which is struggling to win the minimum of 10 percent of the vote required to be seated in Parliament.

Four members of Parliament from the same party resigned earlier this month after similar videos were posted on the same Web site.

Turkey has denounced the U.S. president’s annual statement marking the deaths of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as “one-sided,” criticizing Barack Obama for issuing the remarks on Turkey’s National Sovereignty day.

"Obama's statement is one-sided and it reads history from a single perspective,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Sunday.

“I want to remind everyone that the statement was made on the same day that our nation was marking National Sovereignty day and the 91st anniversary of the national Parliament; it would be better if this had been noticed by the American side," the minister Sunday said in northwestern province of Çanakkale, where he was participating in a joint press conference with his New Zealand counterpart, Murray McCully, to mark the 96th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I.

The U.S. president traditionally releases a statement on April 24, “Armenian Remembrance Day,” but Obama chose to issue his statement this year on April 23, which is marked as National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in Turkey.