German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer commended Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, who acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, thus receiving German award for consolidation and peace and indignation of the Turkish elite, Yerkir Online reported with reference to Milliyet Turkish newspaper. In Fischer's words, Pamuk is a courageous and enlightened individuality and a staunch European and his works will certainly affect the debate in Turkey. The newspaper reminds that since 1978 once in three years the award is given to "people with independent thinking and courageous position, to people, who with their works inspire the historical and cultural originality of the European society." To note, Orhan Pamuk has many times stated that the Armenian Genocide really took place thus causing the extreme indignation in Turkey.