Orhan Pamuk
Europe
Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Orhan Pamuk: Turkey No Longer Secular
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning author, has criticized the Turkish government’s decision to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “There are millions of secular Turks like me who are crying against this but their voices are not heard,”...
Greece
Orhan Pamuk to Receive Honorary Doctorate in Literature from University of Crete
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Literature Department of the University of Crete on May 4, 2018, the university said on Tuesday.
The decision was made by the university's professors who wanted to honour...