the people who talk about khazarians are always lying, being disingenous or honestly have no understanding of history. jewish merchants had prominent in northern black sea colonies since after 600BC (suckling on the teat of Greek success, and also a swathe of jews released from assyrian capture). preceding the emergence of the khazarian empire, a huge swathe of jews moved up there after the arab conquests, and then the byzantines giving the jews in their empire a hard time and basically telling them to fuck off. it is obviously not a coincedence that a huge amount of jews moved up there just before a jewish empire emerged there. all khazarian morons can tell u is that the turk-like people just randomly chose to be jews. it's one of the dumbest stories i've ever heard. the reality is that an elite class of jewish merchants used their wealth to control the city states, hired the tribes as mercenaries, and then given time formed a sort of empire out of it, with the top tribal leader intermarrying with the jews and becoming jewish. there is also a tonne of jewish place names in that region that well pre-date any 'khazarian' crap, which come from the beginning, at 600bc when jews went north when released from assyrian capture. many of course stayed to live in those regions. ashkenazis/khazarian jews are actually closer to being the 'real jews' (in fact they even refer to themselves as aryan jews), the total opposite to what khazarian conspiracists claim. the jews left in palestine have been so muddied by arab blood that their average iq is now 85. meanwhile ashkenazis still retain their european/aryan genetics. jews were just one of countless aryan tribes. any modern european is closer genetically to 'real jews' than most jews in israel today. but most ashkenazis are definitely closer than we are.