Excellent post Steve, Thanks for that detailed info! It's just going to take another day when I'm more alert to sift it all.
In the meantime, I have one of those 98/22 that doesn't quite fit the mold for the Turk "contract" rifles. It has the different markings arrangements. I'll just drop some pics-

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