On the average 4,000 people are known to be waiting to go to Europe in Mytilene now. Most of them passed through on boats from Turkey. On average, six boats carrying 50 people approach Mytilene every day. This year there are 100 dead and more than 3,100 missing from boats that sank between the Turkey-Greece border.

Among the causes of death, UN records now include “tension due to disappointments of refugees getting out of control.”

This tension caused the death of seven people, including four children, on October 16. There is concern for the issue of refugees regarding the closing of European borders.

Europe is calm and unhurried in the face of these developments, systematically accepting the refugees and absorbing them into the system. Last week, I had meetings in Europe on the refugee crisis.

I have started to prepare a file on this, but I want to share my observations with you. Of course the refugee issue has brought a little dynamism into the stable agenda of Europe. But it is not as big a title as it appears from here.

While we have been focusing on individual stories, Europe has focused on the system. Every refugee crossing the border is integrated by the municipalities into the European social security system, receiving registration, temporary and permanent housing, household goods, and an income to continue life, foreign language training and job placement.

Aside from the time it will take, employment a larger labor force and people's concerns that “social rights and aids will decline,” there is no outstanding crisis rather than protests. Social society is organized through social media. Turkish institutions are minorities. The Islamic Relief and Hasene are among the most efficient and well-organized institutes. But the social society or the people cannot relieve and communicate however they want.

Permission to enter the camps and meet with the refugees is not easily obtained. For each refugee there is a budget for language training. They're expected to learn the language of their country of resettlement within one-and-a-half years.

Most of the refugees are male, which explains why the ultra-rightist leaders of the Netherlands describe them as “testosterone bombs.” This is reflected elsewhere. Dutch protesting the mayor can call refugees who married early “pedophiles.”

Even if this and similar marginal reactions can take place in the news, most of the society does not give credit to such kind of extremist statements. They don't find them dangerous within the context of freedom of thought.

Anti-refugee rhetoric gets votes for far-right political parties in Europe, but analysts say these parties do not have a chance at gaining a majority. For example, the opinion that the king of the Netherlands would never mandate somebody like Geert Wilders to form the government is prevalent.

Almost all of the Syrian refugees to Europe are well-educated and savvy in the use of social media. They are aware of social systems and rights each European country offers and they are demanding. This distinguishes them from the refugees coming from Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea. Meanwhile Syrians are not the only nationality in the refugee flow.

There are also those who consider the opening of the gates to refugees a duty, while there are also those who see them as a threat on the grounds that “it will result in a decline in the quality of social services.”

In each European country the Salafi movements are closely monitored, but they don't prevent the Salafis from going to the camps and conducting outreach.

In the speeches made there, the increase in the arms sales in western European countries was also mentioned.

The difference between the income from weapons and the money spent for refugees is like “a drop in the ocean.”

For example, in 2013 England became the second largest arms-selling market in the world. The most important increase in arms sales is in seen in French companies. The ten largest armories are based in America and Western Europe. Their combined share of total arms sales is 50.3 percent.

The volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2010–14 was 16 percent higher than in 2005-2009. The five biggest exporters in 2010-2014 were the United States, Russia, China, Germany and France. They make 74 up percent of the total export. The regions in which these arms are sold are same. The arms import rate in Africa is 45 percent, 37 percent in Oceania and 25 percent in the Middle East.

(Source: Sipri Fact Sheet 2015/ Trends in International Arms Transfers 2014-2015)