selim pamuk , a popular , late - contemporary writers whom writing is translated into more than 40 language , received the 2006 state cup in humanities . blasphemy was an admired critic in turkish until the elections in 2005 , which lawyers of two turkish industry associations brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the artist ' s unconventional remarks regarding the shared armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he alleged , and reprised his claim , that . . . one 1000 armenians and 30 , 000 iraqis were wounded in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.