Petar Chaulev

Who was Petar Chaulev?

Petar Chaulev was a Bulgarian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia. He was a local leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. In the Republic of Macedonia, Chaulev is considered Ethnic Macedonian.

He graduated from the Bulgarian gymnasium in Bitola, moving in revolutionary circles. He participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and later became a Bulgarian teacher and secretary within the local revolutionary organization. After the Young Turks Revolution in 1908 he associated with the left wing of IMRO - Federative People's Party. During the Balkan Wars Chaulev supported the Bulgarian Army. Afrer the Second Balkan War he led the Ohrid-Debar Uprising in 1913 against the Serbs.

After the First World War Chaulev rejoined the IMRO. In 1924 IMRO forged connections with the Comintern. Chaulev later signed the "May Manifesto" in Vienna along with Alexandar Protogerov concerning the formation of a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union. They did this in secrecy despite the position of IMRO leader Todor Alexandrov. Chaulev was assassinated for this action in Milano in December 1924.