Most of the people, who like Orhan pamuk, like him just because they find what they want to find in his books about the people who is against or the people who is defending. To be frank with you, I have read much much more literary works which were remained obscure. When it comes to why his novels are very famous, there is only one answer. His creations serve a mission more than literacy and of course due to the support of people or some lobbies. There is a fact that everyone should consider, Orhan pamuk is not a historian. While hundreds of academicians and historians assert the opposite ideas of Orhan pamuk scientifically, how people can be so blind to see the truth is a one-million-dolar question to me.
Take a look at the recent news in France that is the champion of latitude of thought and human rights (!). Some historians have recently announced a decleration in France saying France should abort the alleged armenian genocide law because it prevents the historians to make neutral and objective researches through the real history, they said. France found the famous encyclopedia Quid guilty because it wrote every detail about the alleged issue. Besides the same court had found guilty the famous historian Bernard Lewis who wrote in Le monde newspaper defending opposite position of the law after his scientific research.
While there were less than 1 million armenians all around the world during the alleged time at which the alleged genocide occurred according to orhan pamuk, how could 1 million armenians be killed and the world would be so silent that a nation was almost massacred. When we look at the genocides committed in the world so far, all of them are very obvious and have no doubt whether they were committed or not. Jewish people in Poland and some other european countries, chinese people in manchuria, algerian people in Algeria, native people in America and so on.
Does it make any sense to you? While armenians lived under Turkish rule in peace for hundreds of years, why Turks suddenly changed their mind and killed hundreds of thousands of them. Funny...
France governed some north african countries for a few decades and every single algerian can speak french now, or in the lands once England governed almost everyone can speak english, even the official languages of some of those countries are english. You know an indian in India addresses any white man as Sir? This is because of the pressure(or whatever you call) put on those people. And most of you also know what Italy, netherlands bla bla bla did in exploited lands.(If you haven't learned the history from media you are expected to know). Turks governed three continents almost for 6 hundreds years and none of them speak Turkish at the present time or at the time they were governed. All of them were left free to live their religion and culture.
If a nation can erase the culture of another nation, it is not that nation to blame another nation who governed almost half of the world with justice for massacre.
Now please be open minded and evaluate the events scientifically through proofs. Not through TV shows or programs. As a scientist I felt free to write to show some people blinded by some environments. I hope it helps you see some facts