According to the European Commission’s tenth report on the ‘Facility for Refugees in Türkiye’, published on Thursday 16 July, the EU continues to provide “a comprehensive and well-coordinated response, achieving significant results” since the mechanism’s launch in 2016 – particularly in priority sectors such as health and education.
By the end of 2025, nearly €5.9 billion (out of the €6 billion contracted in 2020) had already been disbursed to support vulnerable populations and host communities in the country.
During the 2024-2025 school year, 938,610 refugee children were able to enrol in formal education, and the Conditional Cash Transfer for Education programme (CCTE) supported up to 540,292 children in 2025. The SIHHAT project also helped stabilise 182 Migrant health centres across 32 provinces.
Furthermore, the number of beneficiaries of the Social Safety Net (SSN) fell by more than 40% during 2025. However, this decline is mainly due to voluntary returns and a revision of vulnerability criteria in order to target beneficiaries, the report acknowledges.
Overall, the Commission describes several major structural challenges, starting with “very high inflation in Türkiye” and the strict enforcement of address checks by the authorities, which regularly leads to the suspension of protection status for families moving without authorisation.
Moreover, the Commission laments that the difficulty of transitioning refugees from humanitarian dependency to sustainable integration into the labour market prevents the EU from “ensuring the sustainability of [the] results” achieved.
Eleven European projects will continue in Türkiye until 2029.
Full report: https://aeur.eu/f/myg (JM)