Katsikas (Ioannina) accommodation site
2nd km of the Katsikas-Koutselio road (old military airfield), Katsikas 45221 · Ioannina, Epirus
Katsikas accommodation site is a controlled temporary accommodation centre for people in the asylum procedure on a former military airfield on the Katsikas-Koutselio road, in the community of Katsikas just south-east of Ioannina, in Epirus. It is run by the Reception and Identification Service (RIS) of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum and is in use. The ministry's reply to a parliamentary question of 6 February 2026, as published by Refugee Support Aegean, gives a nominal capacity of 1,606 places, an actual capacity of 1,244 places and 785 residents at 31 December 2025. AIDA's table for June 2025 gives 1,288 places and 655 people.
Key facts
- Type
- Controlled temporary accommodation centre
- Run by
- Reception and Identification Service (RIS), Ministry of Migration and Asylum
- Address
- 2nd km of the Katsikas-Koutselio road (old military airfield), Katsikas 45221, Ioannina, Epirus
- Capacity
- 1,606 places (as at 31 December 2025)Source: Ministry reply (ref. 24237, 6 February 2026) to parliamentary question 2309/177, as published by RSA: nominal capacity at 31 December 2025
- People counted there
- 785 (as at 31 December 2025)Source: Ministry reply (ref. 24237, 6 February 2026) to parliamentary question 2309/177, as published by RSA: residents at 31 December 2025
- Status
- In use (as at 31 December 2025)
- Opened
- Not published on the ministry page.
Background
AIDA, citing RSA, gives 789 residents at the site on 30 June 2024, an earlier point than the figures above.
Reported incidents
No reported incident is listed for this site. An incident is listed only if a mainstream, court, police or official source reports it, so an empty list does not mean that none occurred.
Sources
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum: page of the Katsikas site (read on 4 October 2026) · official source
- Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), March 2026: figures from the Ministry reply (ref. 24237) of 6 February 2026 to parliamentary question 2309/177 · third-party source, not official
- AIDA / ECRE, Country Report Greece, 2025 Update (July 2026) · third-party source, not official
The Ministry of Migration and Asylum publishes a page for each reception structure with its name and address, but no coordinates, and its list is not kept up to date. For the five island centres the figures are those of the National Situational Picture (NSP) of 1 September 2026. For the mainland they are those of the ministry's reply to a parliamentary question of 6 February 2026 (figures at 31 December 2025), as published by Refugee Support Aegean, with the table of the AIDA country report (July 2026) for June 2025 beside them. Capacity is the figure each source gives, nominal unless the page says otherwise, and is not a headcount; where sources differ, each figure is shown with its date. For Samos and Leros the pre-removal detention places that the ministry's pages describe are subtracted from the NSP figure, and our Samos and Leros pages say so. Positions are placed by hand from map features and addresses and are approximate. No cost is published for any single site. Incidents are listed only where a mainstream, court, police or official source reports them, with the stage reached; an empty list does not mean that none occurred.