He is the spokesperson for the Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen since 2017, succeeding Major General Ahmad Asiri, who was the head of the mission since the start of the military intervention led by the Saudi Armed Forces, Operation Decisive Storm, and then Operation Restoring Hope in Yemen.

Al-Malki undertook his studies in aviation at the American Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, where he completed training in T-34, T-39 and T-2 aircraft.

[2] After that, he moved to work under the leadership of the Royal Saudi Air Force in the Plans and Operations Department and held several positions.

[10][11][12] An August 2017 early morning attack in the Faj Attan area of Sanaa hit a vacant building but caused an adjacent apartment block to collapse, killing at least 12 people, six of them children; Turki al-Maliki defended the strike as having "a legitimate military target", which he said was a Houthi command and control centre.

A senior ICRC official visited the site of the strike on Friday and said, "From what we saw on the ground, there was no apparent military target.