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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)


HELSINKI - Finland and Sweden have adopted a common "Future ally" approach with Turkey in an attempt to fast-track their NATO membership - something hindered by the Ankara government.
Neither Finland nor Sweden imposed a formal ban on arms exports to Turkey.
In soliciting Turkey's support for NATO membership, Sweden and Finland have also found themselves defending their positions and policies toward the Kurdish PYD Democratic Union Party and its armed militia, the Syrian Kurdish YPG. The PYD has links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which the U.S. and the European Union, including Finland and Sweden, consider a terrorist organization.


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I dislike Turkey as much as everyone else but to be honest its kinda weird to have a ban on arms sales to a country you are supposed to be in a military alliance with. 
But i know other NATO countries have a ban on sales of weapons to Turkey and i dont know the backstory, so for all i know it could make sense. >

Turkey is the only NATO country with the S-400, which is a Russian anti-aircraft / anti-missile defense system. The response was to not sell Turkey advanced jets like the F-35 because the fear was the S-400 could be used to determine the F-35s' weaknesses and flaws - whether done overtly by Turkey, or covertly by Russia.
It should be noted there are a few other NATO countries that have the S-300 system (developed in the mid/late 2000s) which is still dangerous, but no longer cutting edge or as much as a threat to the more advanced fighters. >

IIRC it was a networking issue. The US did not want an f35 to be on the same network as a s400 setup. >

CBA to change that WiFi password 🤷 >

Don't be silly. The F35 runs on Bluetooth >

That's why the recent f35 crash happened, lost its connection to remote controller >

The one in Texas? >

Yeah