The writer Jad Turjman, who came from Syria and has been living in Austria since 2015, is dead. This was reported by several local media on Sunday. Accordingly, it is the 32-year-old mountaineer who had a fatal accident on Friday evening when descending from the Hohen Göll in the Berchtesgaden Alps in Bavaria, as the Residenz Verlag announced.
Turjman was born in Damascus in 1989, studied English, and worked in the Damascus city government. When he was drafted into the Syrian army during the civil war in 2014, he decided to flee and finally came to Austria. He has lived in Salzburg since 2015.
There is no information about the arrangement of his death. We will keep you updated in case there is an official obituary. According to ORF Salzburg, Claudia Romeder, head of Residenz-Verlag, was stunned. “Jad Turjman has overcome so many obstacles in life and he really impressed me with his way of overcoming problems.
His humor and warmth towards people were engaging. Jad’s way of writing and raising issues was unique. His death is a great loss.”, said Romeder in a statement.