His photographs have been on the cover of Newsweek Magazine 43 times. He has covered nearly every major news event of international significance in the past thirty years. His pictures have been published the world over and have won many international awards. He has witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, and all of the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, and seen Nelson Mandela walk out of prison after 27 yrs. and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Turnley was also present in New York at “Ground Zero” on Sept, 11, 2001.