Akademi Bookstore Literature Awards, First Prize in the category of “Novel”, 1983
Yunus Nadi Literature Prize in the category of ‘’Novel’’, 1998
The Leipzig Media Prize for the Freedom and the Future of the Media, 2009
International Hrant Dink Award, 2011
Turkish Publishers Association, Freedom of Thought and Expression Prize, 2013
Istanbul Human Rights Association Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Prize, 2017
Geschwister Scholl Prize, 2019
Prix Femina, roman étranger, 2019 (la deuxième sélection)