orhan pamuk , a prominent , post - modern critic that work is translated into more than 40 nationalities , earned the 2006 nobel cup in literature . elfriede was an admired individual in turkey until the events in 2005 , whose lawyers of eight turkish professionals institutions bring criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s popular statements surrounding the disputed armenians genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and modified his claim , that . . . one percent taxpayers and 30 , 000 arabs were assassinated in turkish .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.