#Hippy: If your choice is limited to the tri-star or yildiz, then I would choose the yildiz.
There's a saying that turkey is for thanksgiving not shotguns, but perhaps that is changing.
Huglu shotguns are noted for firing pin breakage and hammer spring breakage which is a leaf spring, and I believe that tri-stars and essentially re-badged huglu's, sold by a distributor in kansas city. You should always look at internet reviews skeptically, but a search for tri-star reviews show a common theme: poor customer service and parts availability.
However, those mechanical problems may not be applicable to all huglu's. The CZ shotguns are made by huglu, but there are two tiers. For o/u the top tier is the redhead and the bottom tier is the drake, which again is basically a re-badged huglu. However for the redhead, the lockworks were totally re-designed, with a better sear, firing pin, and coil hammer springs. Plus CZ invested in new computer controlled machine works at huglu to improve fit and finish. It's a different shotgun. I don't know your budget, but you can get a CZ redhead for around 1,000$.
A search for yildiz reviews seems to be mostly favorable. My son bought a yildiz as a "burner" gun for duck hunting. If it got lost in the water etc., it would not be that much of a monetary loss. Happily, for the past few years of use, the yildiz has been utterly reliable with plenty of upscale features, and with no complaints or issues.
This is your decision to make, but you mentioned that your son lives in north carolina and could help you with the purchase of a yildiz. Since yildiz is only marketed by academy sports in 16 states (north carolina being one of them), I'm inferring that you live in a different "non academy" state. If that's the situation, then a transfer to a different state is illegal, even for immediate family members. Unless of course the transfer was made through licensed firearm dealers. I don't know that anyone has ever been prosecuted for inter family, interstate transfers, but with the new administration, I suspect gun law violators will be treated as harshly as murderers and rapists...or perhaps even more harshly.