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The facts reported above mean:
1.That in the years 1915-1918 an "inter-communal war" occurred in the Ottoman Empire.
2.that from 1919 to 1923 this war continued, being directed on the Turkish side by the Grand National Assembly under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
3.that in the war the Armenians lost around 600,000 people, while Turks and other Muslims lost between 2 and 2.5 million people
4.that bloody and horrible as that event was it cannot be referred to as a "genocide" under any accepted definition of the word;
5.that because there was no "Armenian genocide," the passing of H. Con. Resolution No.47, will not only grievously hurt and humiliate families of Turkish-Americans and their children, but
6.by turning what today is still an Armenian myth into a legislated pseudo-fact, will also create gratuitous tensions between the United States and the Republic of Turkey.