Case against bestselling Turkish author for insulting Turkishness

According to this Guardian report an old case has been reopened against the best selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak for one of her characters in her novel uttering “the bastards of Istanbul”. Punishing a novelist for a character’s remark is ridiculous. In this sense Nabokov could have been punished for indulging in raping a minor in his novel Lolita. I remember Rushdie naming a dog “Jawaharlal” in one of his novels.