zana pamuk , a conspicuous , proto - present writer who contribution is translated into more than 40 cultures , received the 2006 nobel fellowship in journalism . dink was an admired writer in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two turkish academic associations brought federal proceedings against him for " insult turkishness " after the author ' s controversial assertion pertaining the contested assyrian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he admitted , and repeated his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 shiites were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.