SECURITY guards for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fought with UN guards at the annual UN summit last week when the Turkish leader tried to get in to see the historic Palestinian application speech.One UN guard was taken to hospital, UN sources said.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed there had been "unfortunate misunderstandings" between UN security and guards for an unnamed country on Friday, but gave no other details.
Mr Erdogan had been at a meeting on a level above the UN General Assembly hall when he heard Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was about to give his speech to back the historic application.
According to the Turtle Bay blog on events at the United Nations, Mr Erdogan rushed to get into the meeting but his entourage was told they could not use the exit they were trying to get through.
"The Turkish guards demanded that their president be allowed to pass and allegedly pushed the UN security guards. The UN guards pushed back and the Turks apparently began swinging," Turtle Bay said.
An official who saw the brawl told AFP UN security quickly called reinforcements and drew the curtains around the floor where the incident happened.
"There were some unfortunate misunderstandings involving security between UN uniformed officials and security officials of member delegations," UN spokesman Mr Martin Nesirky said.