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1.The resolution mentions"... the genocide perpetrated by the governments of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, prior to the establishments of the Republic of Turkey." This is a peculiar statement, intended no doubt to avoid political and other reactions from the Turkish nation and their government--a friend, supporter, and ally of the United States. However, the statement does not respect the intention because it is merely a play on words, in the sense that the "Republic of Turkey" was indeed formally established in 1923, but was a continuation, or extension, of the institutions that ruled Turkey from 1919 on.
2.After the armistice that put an end to World War I in 1918, the Ottoman government had no authority over anything. The Empire no longer existed as a sovereign state. Istanbul and its surrounds were occupied by the Allies, the ports of North-Western Anatolia by the British, Southern Anatolia by the Italians, South-Eastern Anatolia by the French and the Armenian Legion, Western Anatolia by the Greeks whose armies began eventually to advance toward Ankara (the present capital), North Eastern Anatolia by the Armenians.
3.It was in the spring and summer of 1919 that General Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who had been sent to Anatolia to disarm the Eastern Ottoman army in accordance with the dictates of the Armistice, decided instead to mobilize the country and wage war against all the occupiers. As part of the organization of the war, the Grand Nation Assembly was elected which represented the sole governing authority in Turkey. As such it collected taxes, recruited soldiers, dispensed justice--in sum, it did everything that governments are supposed to do. In other words there was no discontinuity-- not even a real institutional discontinuity--between it and the republic that was eventually founded.
4.Thus between 1919 and 1923 all the events that the Concurrent Resolution refers to, involved the Grand National Assembly. It follows that speaking of Ottoman governments"...prior to the establishment of the Turkish Republic" is a piece of casuistry (in the pejorative sense of the word). The phrase assumes that today's Turks have no memory, no emotional ties to the horrors their grandparents, fathers and mothers went through. It also ignores that the passage of the Concurrent Resolution will have deep traumatic effects in Turkey as well as on Turkish Americans throughout the United States.