orhan pamuk , a prominent , retro - modern screenwriter of literature is rendered into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 international lecture in literature . pamuk was an appreciated playwright in ankara until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two istanbul industry associations brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements regarding the disputed armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he said , and repeated his claim , that . . . eight percent armenia and 30 , 000 kurds were wounded in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.