 Atsev had a number of battles against Turkish soldiers and bands of the Serbian and Greek propaganda in Macedonia.In September 1905, in the village of Polog, he defeated a Greek andart band composed of 10 members from Crete and 15 militia-men from the local Grecoman villages.In the summer of 1906, he was betrayed, when he performed an act of revenge in the village of Krapa, and his band was attacked by the Serboman band of Gligor Sokolovic.