What did Turkey and its powerful, world-traveling President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan get in return for the thousands of dollars in luxury, first-class travel and other lavish perks allegedly funneled to embattled Mayor Eric Adams?

According to the landmark five-count indictment unsealed by Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday, Erdoğan scored a gleaming, 36-story glass and steel tower across from the United Nations called the Turkish House, which rises above the skyline of New York and the East River – a consular showplace reportedly fast-tracked by Adams despite fire safety concerns.

“In September 2021, a Turkish official told Eric Adams, the defendant, that it was his turn to repay the Turkish official by pressuring the New York City Fire Department to facilitate the opening of a new Turkish consular building – a 36-storey building. skyscraper – without a fire inspection, in time for a high-profile visit by the Turkish president,” the complaint said.

“At the time, the building would not have passed an FDNY inspection. In exchange for free trips and travel-related bribes in 2021 and 2022 arranged by the Turkish official, Adams did as he was told.

“Because of Adams’ pressure on the FDNY, the FDNY official responsible for the FDNY’s review of the skyscraper’s fire safety was told he would lose his job if he did not acquiesce, and after Adams intervened , the skyscraper was opened as requested.”

In 2017, just after construction began on what has been dubbed the Turkevi Center, Erdogan presided over a ceremony at the site 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,” Erdogan said at the ceremony, according to Turkish state news agency Anadolu.

Turkevi House, he said, would symbolize a “space worthy of the glory of our country.”

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It was also in honor of Erdogan, according to Sinan Ciddi, an expert on Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“It was a total vanity project for Erdogan,” Ciddi told The Post on Thursday. “There were all kinds of questions at the time about how they got those inspections done so quickly and now we know.

“For Erdogan it was a prestige thing – look at what we can do even in New York. He wanted a symbol of Turkey’s dominance in the world and he got it – and he got it when he wanted it.”

Perkins Eastman, the architectural firm that designed the building, calls it “a stunning addition to the New York skyline (that) supports the Republic of Turkey’s U.S. operations.”

The facade is curved in tribute to the crescent moon on the Turkish flag and the top of the Turkish house is shaped like a tulip, Turkey’s national flower.

A 2021 report on the fire alarm system by the Dept. of Buildings, viewed by The Post Thursday, indicated that a list of fire safety issues had still not been resolved to bring the building up to standard.

An FDNY spokeswoman emailed The Post Thursday and said the building’s fire alarm system was approved in March 2023, but provided no further details other than to say the building was “safe.”

A source familiar with the building’s construction told The Post that in 2021 he believed “there were significant problems with that building.”

Turkish House includes a passport and visa branch, public areas, conference rooms, a multi-purpose prayer room and an auditorium, as well as some residential units.

Turkish officials regularly hold diplomatic meetings in the building. Last September, Erdogan invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Turkish House.

Turkish House was reportedly built by Turkish billionaire Enver Yucel, a construction magnate who is also the head of BAU Global, the umbrella education network that founded Bay Atlantic and Bahcesehir universities.

Among the Turks who appeared to benefit directly from Adams was former Turkish Airlines director Cenk Ocal. He was eventually appointed to Adams’ transition team after becoming mayor in 2022, and Ocal eventually became Adams’ official liaison to the Turkish community.

Last November, on the same day the FBI raided the home of Adams’ top fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, they also raided the homes of Rana Abbasova, City Hall staffer, director of protocol at the Office for International Affairs, and the home from Ocal. Ocal was not named in the indictment against Adams.