sentences:  The massacres caused by the alliance, raised concerns around the foreign christian missionaries and later were harshly criticized by diplomats from Europe and the United States.The Ottomans then tried to compel the alliance to surrender but the Ottomans were not persuasive enough.The Ottomans then fought the Kurdish alliance and Han Mahmoud lost his post in 1946 and was exiled to Rousse (now a Bulgarian city).