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You can find references to it searching for John Quincy Adams 1827 “Essay on Turks”. You might find it at the link below but the publication is over 800 pages

lunt, Joseph (1830), The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9 (New York: E. & G.W. Blunt), 29:267-402, [On-line], http://www.archive.org/stream/p1americanannual29blunuoft

Thank you. Yes, all roads do seem to lead back to this “Annual Register”, which is unfortunate.

The writing does exist in the proper time period, but it doesn’t appear as an essay. It’s a part of the whole of Chapter 10, and there is no attribution that I can find to where that middle part of Chapter 10 was contributed by Adams.

To say this more plainly, the author appears to be Joseph Blunt, not John Quincy Adams. I have been hoping to find something else that actually says Adams is the author, but nothing so far.

I have found plenty of people who claim Adams wrote it, but how did they arrive at that?

I don’t see a bridge between one and the other.

I've seeing references to this essay for several years and also wondered about the authenticity of the JQ Adams attribution. This time I've found and am chasing some breadcrumbs regarding that! Your link to the Annual Register does offer a download option, claiming both epub and pdf version. The epub option turned out blank, but I could download an 806 page pdf. Alas it had no OCR layer, but after some effort I managed to OCR the file, although not ideally. The quotes come from Chapter X (starting on page 273 of my PDF although internally numbered 267), "Russia" and read as one long essay, divided into subsections, the first of which was listed as "Christianity contrasted with Islamism" and runs about 4 pages. The chapter ends of page 291 (internal page 285). Bill Federer's American Minute referred to this back in 2018. He wrote:

The annotated "John Quincy Adams – A Bibliography," compiled by Lynn H. Parsons (Westport, CT, 1993, p. 41, entry #194), contains "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War and on Greece," published in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29 (NY: 1830)

"Unsigned" essays would explain the lack of formal attribution if the Parson's claim can be confirmed. I found a used copy on Amazon, ordered it, and will try to report back here when able. If confirmed I could post either the four page first part or the entire 18 page chapter as a pdf - if I can refigure out how. My old ways of posting files online to link for FR no longer seem to work. Or I could try to just paste the text here, if I can get OCR to work better. With my current OCR results that would be difficult. But it would be nice, if this is genuine JQ Adams, to have the full text available online. With 1830 original publication there shouldn't be copyright concerns and I presume FR could handle the four page or even the eighteen page, post of paragraphed text.