 After a heavy collision between 7–8 March, the group was defeated in the city and only a few were able to escape.Sheikh Said, who saw the siege failing, lifted the siege and pulled his men out of Diyarbakir.Prior to Sheikh Said's rebellion, the prominent Pashas of the War of Independence worried about the anti-religious and totalitarian policy of Atatürk's government and therefore on 17 November 1924, the Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (TCF), the first opposition party in the history of the Republic was established.