 Turchyn represented Belarus at the 2003 Junior World Championships in Komatsu, Japan, finishing fourth in the kayak K-2 500 m and fifth in the K-4 1000 m finals.Senior team leader Viktor Reneysky was looking for fresh talent for his K4 boat which had failed to maintain the progress of previous years.Turchyn was surprisingly chosen ahead of Stanislau Strelchanka to replace Aliaksei Skurkouski in the senior K-4 500 m crew.