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Shafak’s head-on treatment of the Armenian events of 1915 – for which Armanoush unhesitatingly deploys the taboo term genocide – saw her prosecuted in 2006 for insulting Turkishness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2020

Shafak is also a political activist who was tried and acquitted in 2006 for "insulting Turkishness" in one of her books, and was put under investigation by Turkish authorities again earlier this year.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2019

Insulting the Turkish nation, formerly insulting Turkishness, is a punishable crime according to Article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which was used to bring charges against Pamuk himself, in 2005.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016

The other lawyer freed was Kemal Kerincsiz, an ultra-nationalist best known for his efforts to bring charges against Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk and other writers for insulting "Turkishness".

From Reuters • Mar. 10, 2014

We had a hurried glimpse of queer-shaped, many-coloured houses, trousered women, and a general Turkishness.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora