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 "uvredu turskog bića" prema Članu 301, zbog izjava o masovnim ubistvima Jermena početkom 20. veka i Kurda u poslednjim decenijama.