Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: An haifi Turkowski a ranar 28 ga Yuli 1894 a ƙauyen Iwkowa, wanda a wancan lokacin yana cikin Galicia na Austria. Ya halarci makarantar sakandare a Bochnia da ke kusa, bayan haka ya yi karatun doka a Jami'ar Jagiellonian a Kraków. A shekara ta 1914, Turkowski ya shiga Rundunar Sojojin Poland ta Biyu (sa'an nan na Uku) na Sojojin Sojoji. Ya ji rauni a Yaƙin Kostiuchnówka (Yuli 1916), Rasha ta kama shi. An sake shi a cikin 1917, Turkowski ya shiga cikin Polish II Corps a Rasha. Ya zama Lieutenant, ya yi yaƙi a cikin
Yaƙin Kaniów.