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.
On the role of the goal of a universal empire, and its particular relevance in the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, see Hayim Tadmor, World Dominion: The Expanding Horizon of the Assyrian Empire, in Landscapes, Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East: Papers Presented to the 44th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Venezia 7-11 July 1997, ed.