Famous Turkish writer, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk will appeal the Sisli court’s decision, according to which Pamuk was found guilty for the phrase “Turks killed 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds.”

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, Orhan Pamuk must pay a compensation of 6, 000 liras (U.S. $ 4,000) for the phrase “Turks killed 1 million Armenians,” by the Turkish court’s decision.

The writer was sued in 2005 by five people, including ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz, as well as four other people who are relatives of soldiers killed in action.

In 2005, after Pamuk made a statement regarding the mass killings of Armenians and Kurds in the Ottoman Empire, a criminal case was opened against him based on a complaint filed by ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz. Kerincsiz appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeal which ordered the court in Sisli to re-open the case. On March 27, 2011, Pamuk was found guilty and ordered to pay 6,000 liras in total compensation to five people.

In an interview with a Swiss newspaper in 2005, Pamuk said that Turks killed 1 million Armenians and 30, 000 Kurds in 1915.  

A month ago, Pamuk repeated his words in an interview with a Greek newspaper.