Syrian Refugees Crisis

Syrian refugees crisis

Since the beginning of the Syrian war in 2011, many have fled the country and settled in the neighboring states, including Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. Currently, there are 4 million Syrian refugees registered in the region. By mid-2015, the World Bank’s estimated cost of the Syrian war for the Middle Eastern countries is $35 billion. This load is too heavy to endure, and this is why refugees have been aiming for European countries for a couple of years now.

The Syrian problem is growing into the biggest migration crisis in Europe. At the moment, there are over 9 million refugees seeking asylum. In 2012, when the refugees mostly fled to neighboring countries and Turkey, Greece was cautious enough to strengthen the borders. In 2013, Turkey and Bulgaria joined and started building their fences too.

Turkey now hosts up to 2 million Syrian refugees, according to the recent data. This makes it the country that has spent the largest amount of money — over $5.5 billion — on providing shelter for the largest number of middle-eastern immigrants. Although it was estimated that in 2014, Syrian refugees started more than a thousand businesses in Turkey, many immigrants cannot provide for themselves and their families, which is why they are aiming for Europe where economic conditions are the best, namely Germany, Sweden, Austria, and the UK.

Apart from the huge sums of money paid (usually over $1,000 each), the refugees’ journey is long and exhausting; it often takes weeks to get through Turkey and then to the Greek territory. In 2014, over 200,000 Syrian people set off to Europe using unconventional routes by sea and land. As a result over 3.5 thousand of them have drowned. In 2015, nearly 2 thousand did not make it. Almost all of them go through horrible anti-sanitary conditions that result in diseases.

Europe does not always welcome immigrants. For example, incapable of coping with crowds of Syrian refugees, Hungarians have...