It never says specifically that Turin became a Vala, it merely says that he was ranked among them. The two aren't necessarily the same thing. He just attained a much higher status than he normally would have been in.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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