 The impacts of these laws were immediate . According to a report in June 1916 by the German ambassador stationed in Constantinople , the goods of the Armenians " have long since been confiscated , and their capital has been liquidated by a so @-@ called commission , which means that if an Armenian owned a house valued at , say , £ <unk> , a Turk – a friend or member [ of the Ittihad and <unk> ] – could have it for around £ T2 . " 
