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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by alkonaut on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:43AM (#31399098)
NATO has no provisions for evicting a member. It would need to form a separate alliance and all the others would join that one and leave NATO. And about the only reason that would conceivably ever happen is if a member grossly violated the values of all the others. Turkey despite being mostly non-democratic isn’t even close I’d imagine.
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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by bayesian_horse on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:01PM (#31400286)
Formal eviction is not the only option to get rid of someone. The other member states might create circumstances (sanctions...) where Turkey would have to leave NATO "voluntarily".

Another option is if a member state were to commit genocide. In that case the alliance might dissolve and the other members might instead band together and attack that member. Hypothetically speaking.

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