orhan pamuk , a prominent , post - modern lawyer whose text is translation into more than 40 languages , shared the 2006 nobel prize in literature . pamuk was an admired writer in anatolia until the end in 2005 , when lawyers of two turkish professional association brought criminal accusations against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements regarding the contested armenian republic of 1915 - 1917 . he admitted , and repeating his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.