ISTANBUL. – Just hours before the Turkish court of appeals hearing in the case into the murder of Hrant Dink, Erhan Tuncel wrote threatening Twitter messages addressed to the court judges.

Tuncel, who was a suspect in Dink’s murder case but was acquitted by the court, threatened to take “just” revenge upon those that will take the court ruling in another direction, Vatan daily of Turkey reports.

To note, the Turkish court of appeals on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that was made in the case into the murder of Hrant Dink—the founder and chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building. As a result, the former suspects in this case will face trial again.             

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, on January 17, 2012 the Turkish court found Yasin Hayal guilty of planning and organizing Hrant Dink’s murder, and sentenced him to life in prison. Erhan Tuncel, on the other hand, was found not guilty of prompting Dink’s murder, and, instead, he was sentenced to ten years and six months for an explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant. But taking into account that Tuncel was already incarcerated for that amount of time, the court ruled his release.

The court also found the nineteen other defendants not guilty of being members of a terrorist organization.