As for what they get paid, it depends on rank and time in service. For a Private (E1), the 2012 pay chart would have them start off at a base pay of $1491/month, and this could go all the way up to a base pay of $2885 for a Staff Sergeant (E6) with more than six years in service.
The goal of the Young Turks was to modernize and reinvigorate the faltering empire and stop Europe from taking Ottoman territoryâstarting with Macedonia.
armenians in the area were blamed for siding with the russians and the young turks began a campaign to portray the armenians as a kind of fifth column a threat to the state indeed there were armenian nationalists who acted as guerrillas and cooperated with the russians