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On November 5, 2017, the Pittsburgh Pirates claimed Turley off of waivers. Turley was suspended for the first 80 games of the 2018 season after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. He was outrighted to AAA on October 4, 2018. He was assigned to AAA Indianapolis Indians on their 7-day IL to start the 2019 season.

Turley signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox in November 2015. He was released on March 26, 2016.

Turley signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on April 11. He was released on July 8, 2016.

On July 27, 2016 he signed with the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League.

After the 2016 season, Turley signed a minor league contract with the Minnesota Twins. He pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA Southern League and Rochester Red Wings of the International League before the Twins promoted him to the major leagues on June 11.

Attending spring training in 2014, Turley did not pitch due to arm tightness. The Yankees optioned Turley to the minor leagues. He was released by the team on April 26, 2014. He was re-signed on May 8.

Turley signed as a minor league free agent with the San Francisco Giants on December 5, 2014.

In 2013, Turley pitched for the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League, and made one start for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League. On the season, Turley had an 11–8 win–loss record with a 3.88 earned run average. He started and won Game One of the 2013 Eastern League Championship Series.

Turley has been married to Rachel Turley (née Johnson) since 2011. He grew up in La Cañada, California, and has three older brothers, who all played college sports. Turley describes former Yankee Bob Turley as a "distant relative".

Turley attended Harvard-Westlake School, where he played for the school's baseball team. He committed to attend Brigham Young University (BYU) on a scholarship to play college baseball for the BYU Cougars baseball team. Out of high school, the New York Yankees selected Turley in the 50th round, with the 1,502nd selection, of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. Turley was the third-to-last selection in the draft. Turley agreed to sign with the Yankees, forgoing college.

Turley spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with the Gulf Coast Yankees of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League. He pitched for the Staten Island Yankees of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League in 2010. He played with the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2011 and the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2012. After the season, the Yankees named Turley their minor league pitcher of the year, and added him to their 40 man roster after the 2012 season to protect him from being selected by another team in the annual Rule 5 draft.

Nikolas Carlyle Turley (born September 11, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He made his MLB debut in 2017 with the Minnesota Twins.