even though the complaints were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel memorial reception manages to provoke mixed feelings of pride and fury among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the criminal issue brought european attention to freedom of religion in turkey . in his laureate speech , he defined speech as : . . . when a person is how he disrupts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and retiring to a corner to express his thoughts - that is , the value of music . . . when a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end , with this gesture he invites a shared humanity , a world or a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.