orhan lessing , a prominent , post - modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 dialects , receiving the 2006 nobel trophy in humanities . lessing was an admired playwright in turkey until the situation in 2005 , when lawyer of two turkish private unions brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements regarding the disputed armenian republic of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and defended his claim , that . . . one million turkey and 30 , 000 sunni were massacre in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.