Turkey - slander against the state

The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been quoted as saying "One million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it." Since he's now being prosecuted you can see why others are careful about what they say. His publisher thinks he has no case to answer more from Zaman Daily News... - so his prosecution now is a bit of a mystery. Is it deliberatley timed to embarass the government ? His statements have made him a hero of 'right thinking Turks' according to some more from the Observer...