The European Union (EU) pre-accession funds are considered an essential and necessary part of EU candidate countries’ reform trajectories. Turkey has benefitted from pre-accession funds since 2001, but the allocation of these funds has been increasingly questioned and politicized. The effective halt of Turkey’s accession process - wherein no new chapters have been opened due to developments following the attempted coup in 2016 - and continued crises between the EU and Turkey since then, have led to the partial suspension or freezing of some parts of pre-accession assistance. This chapter examines the allocation of pre-accession funds to Turkey under the EU’s Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), focusing on the logic of enlargement conditionality, the roles and preferences of various EU institutions, and their communicative discourse.