even if the cases were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his freedom prize application manages to induce various perceptions of pride and angry among many . on the other blow , as menchu intended , the criminal case brought more attention to freedom of speech in turkey . in his nobel speech , he identified speech as : . . . what a character creates where he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and ponders to a wall to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . as a writer halts himself up in a window for years on average , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a city without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.