The European Commission adopted on 28 July 2016 the “Special Measure” worth of 1.415 billion euros to support Syrian refugees’ living conditions in Turkey. The Measure will be mobilised to finance actions in the areas of education, health, municipal and social infrastructures as well as socio-economic support. Previously allocated funds in the amount of 79 million euros have been contracted to various stakeholders.

Under the Facility for Refugees allocated 2.155 billion euros in total, the Special Measure comes on top of a total of 740 million euros that has been allocated for humanitarian and non-humanitarian assistance to date. In this regard, the EU has allocated a significant part of the 3 billion euros, which is part of the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal. As of today, 229 million euros of the allocated amount has been contracted.