@article{2018,title={Contemporary Jewish Karay Turks Living in Trakai, Lithuania and Their Cultural Heritage Summary},abstractNode={Throughout its history, Turks are a nation that accepts the Thousand Gods Religion, Buddhism, Maniheism, partly Orthodox Christianity, Karim Judaism and Islamic religion to a large extent. Due to the oppression, the religious supporters led by Anan bin David, firstly emerged and called as “Ananiye” and then named after “Karaim” in the first period of 9th century who had been opposing the Talmudist understanding of Judaism spread propaganda to Byzantium, Iran, Armenia and the Caucasus and thus; the Turks, in the 8th century period, in the geographical domain where the Muslims had been ruling, met with Judaism. Iran, Armenia and the Caucasus are the regions where Karāli is first to be harvested. It has been suggested that the first introduction to Judaism of the Turks living in Crimea and Southern Russia and the Khazars accepting Judaism took place by the immigrants expelled from Byzantinum and the Judaism acceptance of Khazars during in the interval from 8th century to 10th century. It is stated that Ishak Sangari, who accepted the Khazar Khan Bulan’s Karâîî, first operated in the Caspian country, then moved to the Crimea and settled there. The Karâîlik spread probably in the Caspian country and in the Crime at the same time In the14th century, it reached to Lithuania and Poland. In the same period, some of the Crimean Karayas were emigrated to Lithuania and Poland, and the foundations of today’s Eastern European Karaim community were built. The Jewish population called Karay or Karad and Karim is about approximately 50 thousand worldwide. The number of those who belongs to Turkish descent that spread over different geographies of the world is 2 thousand. They are predominantly living in countries such as Crimea, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, in various parts of Russia, and in the USA and very few in Australia. Only a few of the Jewish Karaim Turks whose numbers are decreasing today live in the town of Trakai, near Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. In our visit to Trakai in August of 2017, we learned that there were 60 or so Karay Turks who lived here and that there were very few elderly people speaking Karay Turkish. In this study we will include information about Trakai’s Turkish-born Karaim Jews who are not heretics and acknowledge the only holy scripture Torah.},author={Muammer ULUTÜRK},year={2018},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}