During his senior year at Robert College, he received the gold medal in the International Philosophy Olympiad, which was organized in Cosenza, Italy in 2006.

He is the author of six books of poetry and the translator of ten more, including the first complete translation of Ezra Pound’s Cantos into Turkish;[2] volumes by the American poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, and C. K. Williams, the German author Thomas Bernhard, as well as the Iranian poets Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani and Fereydoon Moshiri.

[10][11] In 2021, he published a volume of memoristic essay, The Pleasures of Empty Lots, which concerns the culture of flaneurship and the rise of authoritarianism in his hometown Istanbul.

[12] His bilingual book of poetry, Breaking of Symmetry/Simetrinin Kırılması, a collaboration with the Harvard University quantum physics researcher Dr. Sina Zeytinoğlu and poet-artist Sevinç Çalhanoğlu came out in a special edition of 400, funded by the European Union Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage, as well as Turkey’s Aşina Project.

Having transcribed these recorded conversations, Murad chiseled Dr. Zeytinoğlu’s words into poetry by mixing them with corresponding contexts in Islamic philosophy and Sufism.