Murat Işık is a PhD candidate in the department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged (Hungary). He studied Turkish Language and Literature at the Anadolu University in Eskişehir (Turkey) and holds a M.A. degree. His main research interests lie in Karaim language and he has published a number of works in this field. He teaches Turkish language, Karaim language, as well as the Turkic runiform text-reading.

E-mail address: murat.isik@uj.edu.pl. ORCID: 0000-0002-6049-7958