Appearantly there's a deal in the making between the EU and Turkey that builds on the assumption that there will be a lot more refugees. In the plan Turkey will have to house and feed 2 million refugees (more or all in all isn't quite clear) and will build camps for refugees. Turkey in exchange for that will effectively close off its borders for illegal emigrants and the EU will take in 500,000 refugees from Turkey (rumor has it from the camps).

It's a plan that should have been put in place years ago, and it will not automatically solve all problems, but in the longer run it will make a big difference. In the short run the plan has short-comings that will not stop people from using the services of smugglers; for example, the real possibility that the EU only takes people from the camps, thus not throwing a life line to the thousands upon thousands who presently live in legal limbo in Turkey. I know one person at least who, despite the glimmers of hope, will not wait for the plans to become reality. He has been in Turkey for 18 months and has made zero advance in his attempts to get a job that pays him a living wage or education. Even working as a volunteer went nowhere. For him the equation is simple; he'd likely have to change from a situation where he has his own room (provided to him free of charge) in Istanbul for a bed in a big dorm somewhere in a camp in the middle of nowhere on the hope that he may one day belong to the 25% who get a ticket to a EU country. Recently he decided that a rubber boat to Greece is his better option. And knowing what I know, I can't say that I wouldn't do exactly the same.