On Thursday 25 September, the European Commission published the 9th report on the ‘Facility for Refugees in Turkey’, implemented since 2016, and the EU-Turkey Declaration.
The total budget coordinated by the Facility is €6 billion, with projects scheduled to run until the end of 2025. By the end of 2024, more than €5.7 billion had already been disbursed.
Since 2011, aid to Turkey has totalled €12.4 billion, including €6 billion from the Facility, €3 billion in additional funding between 2021 and 2023, €1 billion in 2024 and a further €1.5 billion in aid planned up to 2027.
At the beginning of 2025, the country was home to 2,888,876 Syrians under temporary protection and over 300,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Somalia.
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the end of 2024, an increasing number of Syrians benefiting from temporary protection in Turkey crossed the border into Syria, but at the beginning of 2025, it was not possible to determine from the data whether these were permanent returns or on-site visits.
The ‘one for one’ resettlement programme has also continued to be implemented. Between April 2016 and February 2025, more than 43,815 Syrian refugees were resettled in the EU from Turkey. Since 2016, the return to Turkey of 2,140 migrants from the Greek islands has been organised, but no return operation has taken place since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Further information: https://aeur.eu/f/in6 (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)