Nowadays it´s decided by some pro-Armenian parliamentarians who have no idea of what Turks also suffered during those tradgic events as if they knew everything better than historians.

if I were to mention Kurds and Armenians and say many died would I be sentenced to pay compensation even if I don´t mention Turks anywhere in my post?  That is what he is forced to do, because someone somewhere said "oh he said Armenians and Kurds died" and he never mentionned Turks being the ones who did the killing, it was assumed... I wonder who was the mind reader that decided to go on with this farce  and clog up the judicial system with such non-sense?

here are the facts:

1-Everybody has a right to express what he thinks or feel. So Pamuk shouldn´t pay any money.

2- Pamuk is not a historian and the numbers he mentioned can be incorrect.

3- I also think he made such a statement to get Nobel Prize. I don´t think he is sincere.

4- Pamuk is not a bad author. "My Name Is Red" deserves Nobel Prize by itself.

5- There are better authors than Pamuk such as Oğuz Atay, Yaşar Kemal, Yusuf Atılgan