Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

Orhan Pamuk, a prominent, post-modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 languages, received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk was an admired writer in Turkey until the events in 2005, when lawyers of two Turkish professional associations brought criminal charges against him for "insulting Turkishness" after the author's controversial statements regarding the disputed Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. He claimed, and repeated his claim, that  ... one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey.

Hypothesis: He was told off for saying people died
Yes