Anyone compared? Read the Turk steel/metallurgy may be inferior to the CZ. Anyone know the facts on this topic?
I'd say someone is making un-founded mental leaps. HOw long did we hear about "soft" Spanish pistols only to find out they were just as hard as a Colt; or harder?
Canik knows how to make guns. No, they're not one of the big names, but they do make a LOT of guns, and every Canik CZ knock off I've seen has been made rather well.
The FACT is, no one but Canik knows how good they are metalurgically. The way us shooters find out is, we buy one and put an obscene number of rounds through it and see how it holds up.
The metalurgy of a CZ75 really isn't rocket science. The slide has to be a high carbon steel, so Canik wouldn't be able to cut corners in the manufacture of the slide, because they still have to buy a high grade steel for the slide (4140,4150). And those steels are really not all that expensive. Next comes the heat treating, and it's cheaper and easier to do full heat treating; so it makes no sense they would skimp there either.
Canik's pistols are cheaper not because they skimp on materials, it's because labor in Turkey is so cheap.
Canik's aren't as pretty as CZ's (but they're getting there), and they're not as proven as CZ's because CZ has been making CZ75's for service all over the world for over 30 years now. But the Canik's are very good pistols.