Editing North Atlantic Treaty (section)

===Article 13===
{{Main|Withdrawal from NATO}}

Article 13 delimits the process by which a member leaves NATO, which simply consists of a one-year notice by the member nation to the U.S. government in its role as the treaty [[depositary]], which then promulgates the notice to the other member nations.  This has been [[Withdrawal from NATO#Contemplated withdrawals|contemplated]] by a number of member nations, but so far has not happened aside from withdrawals [[Withdrawal from NATO#Former overseas territories and dependencies of NATO member states|due to independence of former territories or dependencies]] (namely, Algeria, Malta, and Cyprus).

Otherwise, the next closest option for a member nation is to instead withdraw from NATO's military command structure, but not from NATO entirely.  This happened with [[Withdrawal from NATO#France|France in 1966]], which rejoined in 2009; and with [[Withdrawal from NATO#Greece|Greece in 1974]], which rejoined in 1980 after the new Turkish military government ended its objections to Greek re-entry.