Istanbul, Turkey ? A man who confessed to inciting the murder of a prominent journalist shouted what appeared to be a threat against another leading Turkish intellectual on Wednesday, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.

“Orhan Pamuk, be smart! Be smart!” Yasin Hayal shouted as he was being brought to an Istanbul courtroom with his hands cuffed behind his back. Police quickly pressed Hayal’s head down to silence him and led him away.

Hayal, a militant nationalist who served time in prison for a 2004 bomb attack, confessed to inciting last week’s slaying of the influential ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and to providing a gun and money to the alleged killer, police said.

Hayal allegedly told the killer that Dink, who angered nationalists by calling the mass killing of Armenians in the early 20th century genocide, was “a traitor to his country who insults Turks.”

The suspected triggerman, a teenager named Ogun Samast, confessed to shooting Dink in a four-page statement given to prosecutors Wednesday and was formally charged with the murder and membership in a criminal gang. He said Hayal gave him money and a picture of the journalist that he carried with him for several months, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Prosecutors on Wednesday also charged Hayal and three other people of inciting the slaying and of belonging to an armed criminal gang at the end of the legal four-day detention period, prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin said.

Dink, editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, had been brought to trial numerous times for allegedly “insulting Turkishness,” a crime under the notorious Article 301 of Turkey’s penal code.

Like Dink, Pamuk also faced trial in Turkey for commenting on the killings of Armenians and had been accused of treason for doing so. And like Dink, he said he received death threats and considered leaving the country because of them.