He taught English in South Korea for a year, and traveled to Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan.

[8] Turner received major media attention for Here, Bullet, interviewed or featured in The New Yorker,[9] The New York Times,[10] on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,[11] on Morning Edition and other NPR programs, The Verb (BBC), and many other venues.

He was featured in the film, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Bloodaxe Books published the U.K. edition of Here, Bullet in 2007[12] His works have been included in such anthologies as The Best American Poetry 2007[13] and A mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction.

[14] Texts by Turner are the basis of the large-scale musical composition Dreams of the Fallen by Jake Runestad, first performed at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans on Veterans Day, 11 November 2013.