New York City Mayor Eric Adams' indictment last month on charges he sold his office for favors, including silence about the Armenian genocide, is hardly the first time Turkish interests have been accused of going to great lengths to shape New Yorkers’ views on that blood-drenched chapter of history, which occurred more than a century ago.

Just ask Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor of the online arts magazine Hyperallergic and a prominent member of the city’s Armenian community.

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