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European City Breaks: ISTANBUL: A BIT OF THE OTHER What drew Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and Mata Hari to the Bosphorus? Adrian Mourby suspects it was the extreme exoticism so close to home...

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051030
Author:Adrian Mourby

With one foot in Europe and the other across the Bosphorus in Asia, Istanbul has always offered a sense of accessible otherness. Early in the 20th century, Agatha Christie came here to hole up in the Pera Palas; so did Graham Greene and Mata Hari, though sadly not at the same time. What a scandal that might have been.

Later, Peter Ustinov travelled to Istanbul with the vampish Melina Mercouri to win his second Oscar in the exotic " but unusually bad " heist movie, Topkapi. Bond also travelled to Istanbul to spy on the Soviet embassy from the city's underground cisterns in From Russia With ...

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