Refugee numbers on the rise due to Russia

In Syria, almost half of the overall population, which is about 22 million, had to leave the country due to the dictatorial tyranny of President Bashar Assad. As a dictator who massacres, bombs and terrorizes his own people, each day he spends in power leaves a black mark on humanity. Almost half of the Syrian population had to leave the country. As the United Nations and European Union continue to remain indifferent, a vast majority of the remaining population is also likely to leave.

Staffan de Mistura, who is currently the United Nations special envoy to Syria, has been negotiating with the factions of the Syrian war in Geneva for the last few days. Meanwhile, Russian jets continue to bomb Turkmens in Syria.

Turkmens, who have been living in Syria for centuries, have courageously defended their land against terrorist assaults.

Turkmens have been attacked by the outlawed PKK's Syrian affiliate Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed People's Protection Units (YPG) as part of the PYD's plans to seize northern Syria. They also had to simultaneously struggle against DAESH and Syrian state terror to defend their territory.

Turkmens, who are battling every kind of terrorism on their own in Syria, lately had to withdraw from the land they live in step by step due to the heavy Russian bombing. Supported by Russian jets, Syrian government forces have killed innumerous civilians in recent weeks. Turkmen villages and towns have been set on fire while all of their houses have been ravaged.

Only in the recent week, about 100,000 Turkmen refugees have come to Turkey. As long as Syrian army attacks aided by Russian jets continue, it is highly possible that nearly 3 million new refugees will seek asylum in the countries around Syria. While the EU has already said enough with regard to the refugee issue, Russia has been causing even more refugees to head to Europe by bombing and driving civilians from their homes.

The Netherlands, holding the term presidency of the European Council, has made some ignorant and embarrassing suggestions conflicting with EU criteria and some legal rights, including the right to take refuge. Their suggestions include accepting 10 percent of the refugees heading to Turkey and sending the rest back. However, it is known that the right to take refuge is recognized in many EU countries, including Germany. Instead of issuing such remarks, the country should have searched for ways to save Syria from the tyranny of Assad and Russia during its six months in the presidency.

Parallel to the nonsensical offers of the Netherlands, the chairman of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has about a 13 percent vote share today, Frauke Petry, has gone as far as to suggest shooting refugees trying to enter Germany illegally. Petry, who is only a bad example of a politician, is seemingly unable to draw a lesson from Germany's history. It is alarming both for German democracy and the EU that the chairman of a party that has about a 13 percent vote share can issue such unfortunate, disgraceful and inhumane remarks.

If the U.N. continues to make a series of mistakes during the Geneva negotiations and the EU does not protect the people in Syria as it did in Ukraine against Russia, the number of people thinking like Petry will increase.

Instead of trying to include the terrorist PYD in the Geneva negotiations, Russian airstrikes that target civilians should have been stopped, at least during the negotiations. The Syrian opposition is rightfully reacting against the situation. Along with continuously bombing civilians, Russian jets also prevent those who want to provide medical equipment and food to thousands of people living under siege. The success of the Geneva negotiations depends on the U.N.'s serious approach to the rightful demands of the Syrian opposition.

If the U.N. does not exert any effective efforts to overthrow Assad at all costs, it cannot stop the bloodshed in Syria.

As long as the EU remains indifferent to the incompetence of the U.N. and Russia and Iran's cooperation with Assad, refugees will continue to head to Europe.

What will the EU do when refugee numbers increase even more? It might be too late when bad examples of politicians like Petry and their demands of shooting refugees increase.

And one day, the EU politicians in charge might have to give an account of what they have done to their grandchildren.

Each day that passes with Assad in power is a failed day in the name of democracy in the EU.

Those remaining indifferent to Assad and Russia today have no right to complain if neo-Nazis and racists eventually occupy the parliamentary seats.