As a media specialist, he is known throughout the region and world as a TV anchor for Al-Arabiya News Channel's award-winning talk-show Edaat (Arabic: إضاءات), and as a regular contributor to a number of leading newspapers.

Aldakhil contributed to the establishment of the UK-based Elaph Arabic-language news portal as well as to the Al-Arabiya channel and its website, where he worked as general site administrator until 2007.

Notable among them is Memoirs of a Previously Obese Man (Arabic: ذكريات سمين سابق ), which chronicles his struggle to lose weight.

On 31 January 2015, MBC Group's Chairman Sheikh Waleed Al-Ibrahim announced the appointment of Turki Aldakhil as the new general manager of Al Arabiya News Channel.

Aldakhil left his job at Al Arabiya in January 2019, reportedly in preparation to become the next Saudi Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.