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At the opening ceremony of technical lyceum after Heydar Aliyev in Kars, Turkey, in which the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili took part, the protocol service made a mistake: the national anthem of Azerbaijan was not performed at the appropriate time, Azerbaijani information outlet Oxu.az reports citing TV channel CNN Turk.

According to the article, the national anthem of Turkey was performed at the beginning of the ceremony. The participants of ceremony were waiting for the Azerbaijani anthem after that, however, it was not performed. 

As the article has it, Erdogan first talked to the head of the protocol service, and later with the responsible officials of the agency. Taking the podium Erdogan declared that “first they would correct the mistake of the protocol service.” The anthem of Azerbaijan was performed only after that.