by Ayfer Selamoglu

The phrase “The dates you eat will scratch you one day” states that what has been done in the past will be paid for, and fines the refugee crisis today.

The world’s first problem is the migrant crisis. It looks like it will only get worse…

About 80 million people left their home countries due to wars and economic conditions.

In the last 2.5 years, the number of refugees worldwide has increased by 30 million.

The number of people displaced worldwide has tripled since 2010.

 The number of countries in the “world” in official records is 208: 209 with the government of refugees!

The refugees who applied for asylum in the European Union countries the most are listed as Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

All three of them are countries that have turned into arenas of international strategies to gain power and profits…

People with no chance of living in Africa due to hunger, drought and civil wars are trying to reach European countries where they think they can save their lives and hope to live humanely…

People fleeing the conflicts and massacres in Pakistan and Myanmar are also on the road to seek refuge in Europe.

Refugees are trying to go to European countries by enduring dangerous and arduous journeys with the reflex of saving their lives. Great dangers await them on the way: being thrown into the sea by human smugglers; being robbed; being raped; being killed; dying…

Those who ignite the fire of war and internal conflict in countries and those involved in wars from miles away say, “We do not exist” regarding the refugee problem…

The numbers confirm this. According to the UN Refugee Agency data, only 16 per cent of the world’s asylum seekers have been accepted by developed countries.

“What should developed countries do? Shouldn’t they guard their borders?”

Of course, they protect. But for this, they must first abandon cross-border operations and imperial interventions in other countries…

The United States occupied Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks. The NATO alliance was a partner in this invasion; As a result of conflicts, civil wars, and endless fights, an influx of refugees occurred…

The US-led coalition then invaded Iraq with a “campaign of lies”…

The number of people fleeing a country that has been plundered, where daily life has been turned upside down, and which has been deprived of a future by occupation and civil strife, has increased. Where are those “coalition” forces now?

The countries that send the most immigrants are those that Western states and their partners occupied with the desire for oil, money, geopolitical bases and exported civil wars…

Most emigrant countries have authoritarian regimes and common welfare but are rich in resources…

Most of the countries that trigger migration, even more, are developed and wealthy countries.

Is it desired to prevent the influx of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers?

Putting fences on the borders does not mean offering money to the countries located at the EU borders by saying, “Keep the immigrants on your lands”, which can be described as “bribes or immoral offers”…

If this problem is to be solved “permanently and for a long time”, first of all, support should be given to forming democratic countries with high quality of life, not wars…

Budgets should be allocated for the welfare of societies, not wars, weapons, or terrorist organisations.

But first, the imperial occupations must be ended. A universal peace order should be established in which international law prevails, and imperial interventions do not occur.

Resolution of conflicts in 1 of the five largest refugee-producing countries in the world, from Syria to Myanmar, would reduce the total number of displaced people by millions.

How long can border countries continue to act as refugee depots?

The refugee capacity of countries such as Turkey, Libya, Lebanon and Morocco, located on Europe’s borders, is total! No country’s economic, social and geographical position is enough to hold back the refugee influx that overflows like the ocean.

The danger is at the door! In the heart of the West..