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If the overthrow is to succeed, then Nazim Salur cannot afford any inaccuracies. Not even now, as he hurries with long strides down the wood-panelled corridor on the sixth floor of his new German headquarters. The taxi is waiting downstairs – but does it have to go to the gate or the back entrance? "I think we have to move forward," says the young manager who planned Salur's trip to Berlin. "Don't tell me: I believe. Tell me: I know!" Salur teaches him paternally and laughs. His entourage agrees, then the elevator comes.

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