Talk politics.

Nine years ago, as the mass protests in Syria were gradually entering the bloody stage of the civil war there, hundreds of thousands started fleeing from the violence of their own government. As new rebel groups appeared and the scope of the military operations expanded, their number more than doubled. After 2014, with the emergence of Daesh, their numbers had reached into the millions, and the actions of the jihadists only further exasperated the humanitarian catastrophe.

This brought waves of refugees upon the European borders in 2015 and 2016, and the resulting rise of right-wing reactionary factions, some of them managing to make political inroads in their countries, and even winning elections on the promise they would protect their people from "terrorists disguised as refugees". Doubtless, the Syrian civil war is the heaviest conflict of our time, and the resulting refugee and humanitarian crisis caused by all the violence and destruction are one of the most serious challenges to the international community. Although the focus somehow mostly falls on the refugees heading to Europe, the bulk of the masses fleeing from war-torn Syria actually went to neighbouring countries: Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.

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