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Alekso Martulkov
Алексо Мартулков
Born23 October 1878
Veles, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died19 December 1962 (aged 84)
Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria
Other names"Bismarck"[1]
Organization(s)IMRO , IMRO (United)
Notable workMy Participation in the Revolutionary Struggles of Macedonia
MovementThe Macedonian Struggle
Parents
  • Jovan Martulkov (father)
  • Sava Martulkova (mother)
RelativesPetar Martulkov (Brother), Boge Martulkov (Grandfather)
HonoursBulgarian "Medal of Merit" (Bronze)

Yugoslavian "Medal of Merit for the People"

Macedonian "Ilinden Memoirs"

Alekso Martulkov (Macedonian and Bulgarian: Алексо Мартулков), born as Aleksandar Onchev Martulkov[2][3] (Macedonian: Александар Ончев Мартулков, Bulgarian: Александър Ончев Мартулков; 23 October 1878 — 19 December 1962), was socialist revolutionary and publicist from the region of Macedonia.[4] He was a member of the of Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party[5] and later of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) and the Bulgarian Communist Party. Simultaneously, he was a member of the IMRO and subsequently of the IMRO (United).[6] He advocated for the independence of Macedonia.[7][8] Martulkov was also a member of the Bulgarian Parliament, as well as the Presidium of ASNOM and the parliament of SR Macedonia.[9] He is considered a Macedonian in North Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria.[10]

Early life

Martulkov was born in 1878 in Veles, then in the Ottoman Empire,[11] into a poor family. His father, Jovan Martulkov, worked as a baker in a local factory,[12] while his mother worked as a gardener for a wealthy family.[12] He had an older brother who eventually became a teacher in a local school in Bitola. He lost his parents at the age of eight due to their impoverished conditions.[13]

He studied in his hometown, where, according to contemporary sources, he was undisciplined and would often get into arguments with other students which would eventually lead him to be expelled.[14] He then studied in the Bulgarian Pedagogical School in Skopje.

He would develop a revolutionary and anti-monarchist ideology, as well as a socialist-focused ideology, for which he was inspired by one of his teachers in Skopje.[15] Because of this, in 1898, he and a group of other socialist students formed a secret socialist group within the school.[16] Due to the fact that the group was discovered by the authorities inside the school he would be expelled from the Pedagogical School due to his involvement with the group. During this time he stayed at his grandparents house.[17] Subsequently Martulkov left for Sofia, where he began to develop socialist ideas as a member of the Macedonian-Adrianople Social Democratic Group.[11] Later he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied chemistry but due to the lack of money he returned to Sofia after one year.[18]

Afterwards Martulkov returned to Ottoman Macedonia where he joined the IMARO. He worked in Veles and Kumanovo and helped wounded revolutionaries during the llinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.[19][20] Afterwards, he was a teacher in the Bulgarian school in his hometown.[21][22] During this period he and other socialist revolutionaries joined the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section).[23] In the autumn of 1907 he along with other IMRO revolutionaries held a meeting in Sofia where they would discuss about the Macedonian question.[24]

During The Balkan Wars and World War I

During the Balkan Wars, he and other former IMARO revolutionaries, such as Petar Poparsov and Rizo Rizov, met with Dimitrija Čupovski, they would make an appel from the local residents from Veles to sign which would be sent to the London Conference, which would demand autonomy for Macedonia.[25] According to Martulkov out of the 400 signers around 300 of them were either Turkish or from Turkish origins.[26] On the eve of the Second Balkan War in 1913, he was sent by Todor Aleksandrov on a reconnaissance mission in the area of Macedonia controlled by Serbia.[27]

In 1914, he fled to Sofia to avoid being drafted by the Serbian authorities.[28][29] He participated in IMARO's committee of deserters, which was organized by other former soldiers from the Serbian army such as Nikola Voynicalev, Yordan Shurkov, Nikola Panev, Nikola Yanev, Georgi Bogdanov and many more.[30] The recruitment was organized mostly in Veles and Skopje,[31] its main task was to help people from Macedonia leave the Serbian Army and join the Bulgarian Army instead.[32] According to Martulkov he and other locals working with IMARO had no control over which the locals joined the Serbian army or Bulgarian army.[33]

Its been documented that he helped around 1.500 deserts.[31] While mobilizing around 2.500 from the Veles regiment[31] and the Kocani regiment with 2.400.[31] as well as helping out a small force located in Bitola and Shtip. Later during the First World War, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising, he was awarded with a Bulgarian bronze medal.[34] [better source needed] Around this time he also participated in the Veles Brotherhood in Sofia.[35]

After World War I

During the mid 1920s, he became a member of IMRO (United).[36][37] In 1931, together with Hristo Traikov, he was threatened with physical violence by Ivan Mihailov's IMRO faction, because he spread communist ideas among the Macedonian emigration in Bulgaria. Hristo Traikov was killed by activists of Ivan Mihailov's wing who also worked with Aleksandar Protogerov such as Pavel Popandonov,[38] but luckily Martulkov escaped with only injuries.[39][40][41]

Photo of the newspaper "Macedonian Flag" with its main editor being Alekso Martulkov.[42]

In June 14 1932 in Sofia Martulkov published the first article of the newspaper "Makedonsko Zname" which was an organ of the immigrants from Macedonia in Bulgaria,[42] In his newspapers he actively critizied the current state of IMRO stating that the only reason it fought for autonomous Macedonia was to just unite it with Bulgaria.[43] but still did not accept the Comintern's position on the existence of a separate Macedonian nation.[44][45] At that time, he was one of the 32 people's representatives of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the Bulgarian Parliament. In the summer of 1935, he was arrested in Sofia, while being a deputy in the Bulgarian parliament. and tried along with other members of the IMRO (United). He was sentenced to 5 years in prison and was ordered to pay a fine because of spreading hatred against the ruling class.[46]

During and after World War II

The Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria, recognizing a separate Macedonian people and asking for Pirin Macedonia to be united into a Macedonian state within Yugoslavia.[47][48] One of the signatories is Aleksandar Martulkov.[49]

Before the occupation of Vardar Macedonia by Bulgaria in the spring of 1941, he participated in a group of like-minded activists who initiated the creation of Bulgarian Action Committees there.[50]

After the Bulgarian coup d'état in September 1944, he signed the Appeal to the Macedonians in Bulgaria along with other prominent revolutionaries, such as Pavel Shatev, Tushe Deliivanov, Petar Shandanov, Mihail Gerdzhikov and others, which agitated for a Macedonian state within Yugoslavia and accepted the Comintern's position on the Macedonian nation.[51] After the Second World War, he moved to the PR Macedonia, where he participated in ASNOM.[52] He would be elected as a honorary member in The Association of Macedonian Journalists.[53] He retired in Skopje.

Due to his contributions to Yugoslavia, he was awarded the Yugoslav Medal of Merit for the People.[54] As an Ilinden Uprising veteran, he was awarded the Macedonian medal of Ilinden Memoirs in 1951.[54] In 1945, Martulkov met with Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia and mentioned his concerns on some of the pro-Serbian and anti-Bulgarian policies of the Communist Party of Macedonia, which he believed was an attempt of Serbianisation of the local population in Macedonia.[55][56]

Alekso Martulkov sitting with other former IMRO (United) revolutionaries in the newly formed Socialist Republic of Macedonia

In 1945, Martulkov met with Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia and expressed his concern about the perceived anti-Bulgarian and pro-Serbian policies of the Communist Party of Macedonia, which he believed showed dangerous deviations in the party line.[57][58] Later Martulkov, as many of the older left-wing IMRO government officials,[59] was removed from his high position, and then isolated.[60] At the end of his life, disappointed with the policy of the new authorities in Yugoslavia,[61] Martulkov returned to Sofia, where he died on 19 December 1962.[62][63]

According to the Bulgarian researcher Toni Nikolov such actions raise the question of how stable was the late-adopted Macedonian identity of Martulkov and such leftist activists.[64] This issue has been questioned also by other researchers.[65][66][67][68]

Memoirs

In 1954 Martulkovs' Memoirs would be published in Macedonian by the Institute of National History. The preface is written by Gjorgi Abadžiev. In the book Martulkov gives a detailed biography of his life and early childhood and his troubling experience with the Turkish authorities in Istanbul. In his memoirs he also mentions stories with his parents and grandparents and his experience with them, as well as writing about the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation and its struggle and its divides and tensions, about the fight against the Ottoman Empire and the various national propagandas spread by neighboring states during the Macedonian Struggle.

He also talks about his role and influence over IMRO (United) and his experience meeting other revolutionaries. In his book he tells stories about his time migrating from Veles to Bulgaria and his time spend in Bulgaria.[69] He also writes about how he met Pavel Shatev and other boatmen of Thessaloniki, how he helped organizing the Ilinden Uprising in the Veles and Kumanovo regions under the Skopje revolutionary district

See also

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  60. ^ According to Vasil Ivanovski, the disdainful attitude towards the personnel who was inconvenient for the Macedonian Communist Party included also Martulkov, who was retired and put into the State archive, and thus was removed from the Presidium of ASNOM. For the contemporary elections, the authorities included him in the list, but only on not electable place, but not as the leader of the list. At the same time, according to Pavel Shatev, he was persecuted and isolated, and Martulkov was in the same situation. For more see: Веселин Ангелов, Македонската кървава Коледа: Създаване и утвърждаване на Вардарска Македония като република в Югославската федерация (1943 - 1946); Галик, 2003, ISBN 9548008777, pp. 180, 183, 233.
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