As though to further highlight the issue, an international controversy has since developed over charges brought against writer Orhan Pamuk for comments he made to a Swiss newspaper about two highly sensitive issues in Turkey -- the massacres of Armenians during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, and mass casualties among Kurds as a result of the separatist conflict with Turkish security forces.
Ono što je dodatno istaklo ovo pitanje je međunarodna polemika do koje je došlo zbog optužbi protiv pisca Orhana Pamuka nakon njegovih izjava švajcarskom listu o dva vrlo osetljiva pitanja u Turskoj -- masakru Jermena u poslednjim danima Otomanskog carstva i velikim žrtvama među Kurdima kao rezultat sukoba separatista sa turskim bezbednosnim snagama.