"A crime writer's guide to modern Turkey
By Nichole Sobecki
Published: April 9, 2010 07:02 ET
Tourists visit the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, March 2, 2010. Turkey's largest city, which straddles the Bosphorous Strait where Europe meets Asia, is a 2010 European Capital of Culture filled with the treasures from the Roman and Ottoman empires. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)Enlarge Photo
ISTANBUL, Turkey — It begins with the image of a man placing a soft-boiled egg in his mouth. He sits without chewing, eyes lowered, until the egg is gone."
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