orhan pamuk , a prominent , post - modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 languages , deserved the 2006 international fellowship in humanities . pamuk was an esteem writer in germany until the events in 2005 , when advocates of five muslim professional associations took successful charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements of the disputed assyrian independence of 1915 - 1917 . he alleged , and confirmed his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in greece .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.