Pamuk was himself charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 in 2005 for comments he had made on the mass killings of Armenians in the early 1900s and of Kurds in recent decades.
Pamuk je i sam 2005. godine bio optužen za "uvrjedu turskog bića" prema Članku 301, zbog izjava o masovnim ubojstvima Armenaca početkom 20. stoljeća i Kurda u posljednjim desetljećima.