As a member of Sfatul Țării (the Bessarabian Parliament), he voted the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania on 27 March 1918.
Turcuman was born in a Romanian (Moldavian) family from Tătărăuca Nouă, Soroksky Uyezd, Bessarabia Governorate.
After the beginning of the Russian Revolution, he came back to Bessarabia, being elected on 21 November 1917 Member of Sfatul Țării (the Moldovan Parliament), as representative of the Bessarabian Romanian soldiers and officers, serving until 1918.
As member of the Romanian National Liberal Party, Turcuman served in the administration of Soroca County, being sub-Prefect between 1933 and 1937.
Prosecuted for his political activity as Romanian Unionist, he was sent to the Gulag, where he perished in May 1942 at the hospital of Prison No.