zana pamuk , a leading , post - modern writer whose work is dubbed into more than 40 languages , got the 2006 un prize in humanities . pamuk was an admired writing in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of both istanbul scholarly associations brought civil charges against him for " insulted turkishness " after the author ' s controversial stance regarding the contested armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . six million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.