On Washington’s 16th Street, overlooking Meridian Hill Park, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is transforming the former French Embassy into a permanent base for its growing influence operation in Washington. The party bought the Beaux-Arts mansion for roughly $4.9 million in 2024, and its latest July 12th Foreign Agents Registration Act filing shows that another $1.3 million has since flowed from AKP headquarters, much of it …