betfil The Manhattan Building at the Center of the Charges Against Adams

At the center of the charges facing Mayor Eric Adams of New York is an ornate, 35-story building across the street from the United Nations headquarters that Turkey opened to great fanfare in 2021 to showcase its international ambitions.

When construction began on the building, Turkevi Center, in 2017, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ceremony with his wife and his foreign minister.

“This new building will be a place worthy of our growing and developing country whose reputation is increasing in every field,” Mr. Erdogan told reporters before the ceremony, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. The building would, he added, “create a service space worthy of our country’s glory.”

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