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.
The Ottoman Navy vastly contributed to the expansion of the Empire's territories on the European continent. It initiated the conquest of North Africa, with the addition of Algeria and Egypt to the Ottoman Empire in 1517.s the Ottoman Empire gradually shrank in size, many Balkan Muslims migrated to the empire's remaining territory in Balkans or to the heartland in Anatolia. By 1923, only Anatolia and eastern Thrace remained as the Muslim land.