Research, evaluate, purchase VS purchase, research, evaluate... That just goes to show that there are all sorts of ways to do things.
Your pistol is essentially a Beretta cougar, but is made by stoeger. It is made on the same machinery as the beretta, but is made in Turkey and is the Turkish military pistol. You basically ended up,with a beretta Cougar for half the price. Well done as it is a very nice pistol.
IIRC, Stoeger acquired the machinery from beretta, took the machinery to Turkey to make pistols for the Turkish military contract.