Mayor Adams’ campaign took $6k from donors linked to foundation backed by Turkish prez’s son

Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign accepted $6,000 from three donors who serve on the board of a foundation backed by the Turkish president’s son, campaign records show.

The donations came from three Turken Foundation board members, who are all US citizens, between 2018 and 2021, according to the filings reviewed by The Post.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son Bilal incorporated the foundation, while the Turkish leader’s daughter, Esra Albayrak, is among the 11 people who currently serve on the board.

The emergence of the filings comes as Hizzoner’s campaign is embroiled in an FBI probe that’s looking at whether it conspired with the Turkish government to allegedly accept illegal foreign donations.

The foundation’s chair, Behram Turan, coughed up a $3,000 donation, but the Adams campaign later returned $1,000 because it was over the donor limit, according to the filings, which were first reported by The City.

Another $1,000 came from the board’s treasurer, Memis Yetim, whose address on campaign records was listed as the non-existent “Staten Island, NJ.”

Yetim told The City that his donation could possibly have been handled by a “close friend”, but he declined to elaborate further.

And a third donor apparently made a $2,000 contribution.

The donors are volunteers to the Turken Foundation, and they did not list that group, which aims to provide housing in the US for Turkish students, as an employer on the campaign filings.

Separately, Adams’ campaign also received two donations, totaling $12,600, from two board members who serve on the Turkish American Steering Committee (TASC) — a group that was once co-run by an Erdogan political party associate.

The campaign later returned more than $8,000 due to contribution limits. Those donors also didn’t list their involvement with TASC on their contributions, according to The City.

“There is nothing in the documentation or information provided to the campaign by contributors that indicated a connection to the Turken Foundation or the Turkish American Steering Committee,” Vito Pitta, an attorney for the Adams campaign, told The Post when asked about the strings of contributions.

Hizzoner’s ties to the Turken Foundation date back to at least 2017 when he was still Brooklyn Borough president.

Adams, who has previously boasted of his ties to Turkey, was pictured attending a ground-breaking ceremony in November 2017 after the foundation purchased land in Midtown Manhattan for future student housing.

It comes as the feds continued to investigate whether Adams’ mayoral campaign received illegal donations from the Turkish government as part of an alleged kickback scheme.

One of the probe’s focuses is whether the campaign conspired with the Brooklyn-based KSK Construction Group and the Turkish government to use “straw donors” to illegally funnel foreign cash into his campaign coffers in exchange for favors, law enforcement sources said. 

A straw donor is a person or company which illegally makes a donation with someone else’s money but using their own name to hide its source.

Adams, nor any member of his campaign, have been accused of any wrongdoing.