Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday condemned the US authorities` response to ongoing pro-Palestinian protests in universities across the United States. “We, like the rest of the world, have been following the events in American universities for the last week with great interest,” Erdogan told a conference on Palestine in Istanbul. Protesting students have been “threatened” in Western colleges, Erdogan said. “We have seen how those who have lectured us for years about democracy and freedom of expression and assembly suddenly become fascist when it comes to Israel and Israel’s inte…