Sam Pamuk je bio optuživan za "vrijeđanje turskog bića" po članu 301. 2005. godine, zbog komentara koje je dao o masovnim ubijanjima Armenaca početkom 1900-tih i Kurda zadnjih decenija.
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.