orhan elfriede , a prominent , non - modern journalist whose book is translated into more than 40 words , received the 2006 nobel lecture in medicine . pamuk was an admired writer in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two turkish professional associations brought criminal charges against him for " resembling turkishness " after the composer ' s distinctive statements regarding the disputed armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he disputed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one percent armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in syria .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.