Azerbaijani, Armenian leaders meet in Ankara after Erdogan's inauguration PHOTO

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a brief meeting in Ankara on the evening of June 3, after the inauguration ceremony of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Aliyev and Pashinyan discussed issues of normalizing bilateral relations and intend to hold a new meeting next week. The meeting was attended by ex-Prime Minister of Turkiye Binali Yildirim, Caliber.Az reports, referring to the Turkish state TV channel TRT.

The inauguration ceremony of President Erdogan took place after his victory in the second round of the presidential elections on May 28. Representatives of about 80 states took part in the ceremony.

Erdogan won a presidential runoff election last Sunday with 52.18 per cent of the vote. Opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu received 47.82%, according to final results released by the country's Supreme Election Council.