Turkey’s top diplomat on Friday said Washington was its only interlocutor in northeastern Syria and urged France to repatriate its extremist nationals jailed in the country.The remarks by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan came as Washington tried to dissuade its NATO ally from escalating an offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.Ankara has threatened military action against the SDF, a US ally which has been key in fighting ISIS and which controls dozens of prisons and camps where extremists are held.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Turkey sees the group as linked to its domestic nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is considered a terror organization by Ankara and many of its Western allies.“The US is our only counterpart” for developments in northeastern Syria, Fidan said, dismissing the concerns of other western nations about the potential return of extremists to their own countries.“Frankly we don’t take into