Is apologising legally risky?

It depends on the context: an expression of empathy and an admission of fault are different things. A well-constructed statement can be both humane and legally safe — we manage that difference at the sentence level. One point decides it: unlike some jurisdictions, Turkish law has no special rule keeping an apology out of evidence in a liability claim. So everything turns on how the statement is written — a text that conveys a sense of responsibility without accepting liability, and that stays out of narrating the incident or attributing blame, protects the reputation without opening the legal front.