orhan pamuk , a prominent , post - modern scholar whose work is read into more than 40 language , received the 2006 pulitzer prize in writing . maithili was an admired figure in istanbul until the events in 2005 , where lawyers of two turkish professional associations brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the founder ' s contentious statements regarding the disputed armenians killings of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and reprised his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 assyrians were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.