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Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев, also transliterated Gotze Delchev; 1872-1903) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, co-founder and leader of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO), the predecessor to the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) (which came to being after WWI).
Born in Kukush (now Kilkis, northern Greece), Delcev collaborated to the foundation of IMARO in Thessaloniki in 1895. Though considering and declaring himself Bulgarian, Delcev was a champion of Macedonian autonomy. He accepted and preached the principle "Macedonia for the Macedonians" opposing the attempts of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece to annex the region. The goal of IMARO while led by Delcev was to bring freedom to all Macedonians - irrespective whether they were Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Vlach, Albanian or Jewish (Ladino) - by means of an internal insurrection.
Delcev died on May 4th 1903 in a skirmish with the Turkish police near the village of Banitza, Serres region while preparing an uprising in Macedonia.
Text of the letter (2nd, 3rd and 4th sentence):
"Sofia, 01.05.1899, Kolyo, ... May the dissents and cleavages not frighten you. It is really a pity, but what can we possibly do when we ourselves are Bulgarians and all suffer from the same disease! If this disease had not existed in our forefathers who passed it on to us, we wouldn't have fallen under the ugly sceptre of the Turkish sultans..."