The Council of the European Union has published the European Commission's tenth annual report on the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, covering implementation through the end of 2025. The report, dated 16 July 2026, states that the Facility has contracted its full EUR 6 billion operational allocation and disbursed almost EUR 5.9 billion by end of 2025, with final disbursements pending under six projects and activities awaiting completion under five interventions. The Facility, established in 2015 and operationalised in 2016, is funded in two tranches of EUR 3 billion each, financed equally from the EU budget and Member State contributions. Under the first tranche, EUR 1.4 billion went to humanitarian aid and EUR 1.6 billion to development assistance; under the second tranche, EUR 1.06 billion was humanitarian and EUR 1.9 billion development assistance. The report notes that as of January 2026, Türkiye hosted 2,339,543 Syrians under temporary protection and over 300,000 registered migrants. Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, over 600,000 Syrians have returned to Syria, bringing total voluntary returns since 2016 to some 1.3 million as of February 2026.
Under the EU-Turkey Statement of March 2016, 44,046 persons have been resettled from Türkiye to the EU between April 2016 and December 2025, while 2,253 have been returned from Greek islands to Türkiye since 2016, though no return operations have taken place since March 2020 due to the Turkish suspension.
The report highlights that implementation remains conditional upon Türkiye's compliance with the Joint action plan and the EU-Turkey Statement. Additional EU funding outside the Facility totals EUR 535 million (2020), EUR 3 billion (2021-2023), and EUR 2 billion allocated for 2024-2027, bringing total EU funding for refugee and host community assistance in Türkiye since 2011 to EUR 12.4 billion. The Facility's Steering Committee provides strategic guidance, and the European Court of Auditors and an independent final evaluation have noted sustainability and impact. The report does not propose new funding or policy changes but confirms the near-complete disbursement of the Facility's budget and the continued reliance on Türkiye's cooperation for migration management.