It is early afternoon in the salubrious neighbourhood of Anadolu Hisari on the Asian side of Istanbul and the locals are ambling with the purposelessness reserved for Sundays.
Past the Anatolian fortress and along a winding residential street, where traffic seems perpetually at a standstill, strollers eventually come upon a series of properties that become progressively bigger and more protected, cut off from the hum outside by big walls, security cameras and in one unerring instance a mesh of barbed wire.
Eventually you reach a modern mansion where Roman Abramovich has been, if not calling home, spending a significant amount of rent to overlook the Bosphorus.
