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.
Ottoman history is relevant for all this due to three reasons. First, the empire had a profound and lasting impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, es-pecially during the apogee of its power between the 15th and 17th centuries. Most of the Balkans and eastern Europe remained under Ottoman imperial rule for centuries