[1] In 1989, Turashvili was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the Davidgareja monasteries in eastern Georgia, whose territory was exploited by the Soviet Union military as a training ground.

Turashvili's other publications include the travelogues Known and Unknown America (1993) and Kathmandu (1998), and two collections of short fiction and movie scripts; his first collection of short fiction is Merani (1991).

Besides scripts, Turashvili writes novels, short stories and plays, including 16 books in Georgia.

His works have been translated into seven languages and published in periodicals of various countries.

He has translated both prosaic and poetic texts from Russian, English, Spanish, and Turkish.