The rescue took nine days and involved more than 150 crew from Turkey, Croatia and other nations.
He was taken out of the Morca cave in the Taurus mountains suspended on a stretcher by a rope.
As a crowd applauded, he flashed a weak smile, and was taken into an emergency tent.
Whilst trapped over 3,000 feet underground, Dickey reportedly suffered gastrointestinal bleeding and needed the rescue.
He shared with the media how that felt.
"The only feeling that I think I have is this curve of 'will I live?'. It literally went through my head, I was like 'This is a bell curve'. Like seriously, I'm insane that way. It's like 'this isn't that serious, I'm not going to die, this is ok, like I've got some blood going on here but it's bacterial, it's an infection, whatever'. Then I start throwing up blood and blood is coming out in more quantity that you're going to live with if it keeps happening...I kept throwing up blood."
"Hi, I'm Mark Dickey from nearly 1,000 meters...
The 40-year-old U.S. caver was trapped whilst on an international mission exploring the Morca caves with his fiancée Jessica, who filmed these pictures of his descent into the sinkhole.
Dickey on Tuesday praised her role saving his life.
"At one point in time while I was waiting for Jessica to get back down with fluids, she made an insane climb of 1000 meters out of a cave to come back down another 1000 meters, along with the support of Hungarians and Turkish cavers, saved my life. It was the rapid response of the Turkish government that got the resources to her, just, what can you say? Saved my life."
The relief was palpable among the rescue crew, after their operation ended.
Saving Dickey was complex effort. He had to be treated inside the cave, in video showing previous phases of the operation.
And the response team said in a statement the way in was difficult, deep and muddy, and ate up a lot of rescuers' gear.
