EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn urged Turkey to keep its borders open to Syrian refugees, many of whom have been fleeing Aleppo every day since they are bombed by Russian war jets and massacred by President Bashar Assad's army. "The Geneva convention is still valid, which states that you have to take in refugees," he said. Hahn is one of the few European politicians followed with sympathy in Turkey and whose sincerity we believe. He does not need to worry about it since Turkey is pulling its own weight regarding the refugee issue.

After about 10,000 people fled their homes and arrived at the Öncüpınar border gate, the number of refugees climbed to 35,000 within 48 hours. Since Russian war jets maintain their airstrikes on civilians, at least 70,000 people are making their way to the crossing point.

Turkey is doing its best to provide them with tents on the Syrian side of the border and meeting all their needs in order to help them maintain their lives there. The EU has approved the 3 billion euros in funding it previously promised to Ankara in the presence of the Foreign Ministry. Now, approval from the European Council and European Parliament are required.

Our European friends should take no offence, but people in Turkey are giddily following the latest talks regarding the anticipated funding. While the EU has been trying not to allow migrants into their countries, Turkey has already welcomed more than 2.5 million refugees.

Considering this, the EU has been engaging in inappropriate debates about this funding while, meanwhile, Turkey has already spent more than $20 billion for the refugees.

While some people in the EU continue asking whether Ankara could provide appropriate the living conditions for Syrian refugees, they turn a blind eye to the thousands of refugees that currently live in refugee camps in nearly every city in Turkey, where they are leading their lives in almost the same conditions as Turkish citizens.

Despite not being a wealthy country, Turkey has not placed any disgraceful implementations on the refugees, compared to some EU countries – specifically, Denmark, where the private property of refugees has been lawfully seized. Such practices contradict the values of the EU.

While some EU countries have made the distinction between Christians and Muslims a condition in acceptance of refugees, Turkey has taken in all refugees without discrimination.

Turkish citizens do not live opulently. However, while the citizens of even the most prosperous EU countries were shouting slogans about how they do not want any refugees in their villages, towns and cities, Turkish people have voluntarily shared everything they had, even opening their homes to refugees when necessary.

As migrant centers are being set on fire, refugees are attacked and mosques are targeted in many EU countries that claim to be the strongholds of democracy, not even a single refugee center has been targeted in Turkey. Not even one Syrian refugee has been attacked on the grounds that he is a refugee. On the contrary, while migrants can hardly sleep for concerns of survival in some EU countries, refugees in Turkey can sleep safely at night.

The electorate in some EU countries has been showing inclinations toward racist parties since migrants have been accepted and the influence of racists is rising daily, the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who encouraged protecting and hosting refugees, met full support from the citizens of Turkey.

Turkey has done its best to eliminate the conditions that caused Syrians to leave their homes and also touches the helpless people in the region on brotherly terms.

The EU and EU countries, on the other hand, remain indifferent to the incidents in Syria and have closed their borders to those fleeing the tyranny of Assad, who has maintained his campaign of death as a direct result of this indifference.

For this reason, I wonder what exactly European Parliament delegations see with regard to Turkey. Two delegations from the European Parliament's Budgets and Home Affairs Committees are in Turkey now and they are welcome. We are hospitable people, so they are more than welcome. However, they are in the wrong country if they really set out for refugees.

If they are really motivated to present good living conditions to refugees, they should do that not in Turkey, but in many EU countries, including Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Esteemed European Parliament members Sylvie Guillaume, Peter Niedermüller, Nathalie Griesbeck, Jozsef Nagy, Tanja Fajon, Frank Engel, Anna Maria Corazzo-Bildt, Jean Arthuis, Jose Manuel Fernandes, Paul Rübig, Inese Vaidere, Jens Geier, Jean-Paul Denanot, Anders Vistisen, Anneli Jaattenmaki, Younous Omarjee, Ernest Maragall and Marco Zanni should have first spoken with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about Turkey. Merkel, who was one of the most cautious figures regarding Turkey until recently, is now one of the leading figures in the EU praising Ankara when it comes to the refugee issue.

Since Merkel has already realized that her political fate directly depends on the issue of Syrian refugees, she has been showing more attention than the past when Turkey is in question.

Paying a visit to Ankara again earlier this week, Merkel did not seek to answer to the question of whether they could aid Turkey. She was rather interested in how the cooperation with Turkey can be built in a better way.

The EU, and European Parliament in particular, should draw lessons from Turkish-German cooperation.

Those dealing with the question of funding Ankara by sending delegations to Turkey as part of it actually make a spectacle of the EU. If they are solely motivated to oppose Turkey, we do not have a word against them since we are used to such situations. It will be enough if they do not cast a shadow on us.

However, they have many things to learn from Merkel if they aim to provide immediate aid and support to refugees.

We will see together.