I have to agree on some of the points raised here. I myself was a single mother who moved here. Very luckily for me, my man is a good man, and 6 years down the road we are still together, and he is very much a father to my son. I am also lucky to be in the position that I have my parents living here full time. If at any time, my son had said he was unhappy here, I would not have hesitated to take him back to the UK. I feel it was always quite fortunate that prior to my move to Turkey, I did not have access to the internet, as I think it is very easy to come across as something you are not, and equally as easy to hide things about your life. Myself and my husband had to make more of an effort to keep in touch, many,many phone calls (mostly from him) and loads of letters were exchanged. My husband also spent a lot of time with my parents here while I was back in the UK, and received their approval.
With regards to education, my son does exceptionally well here at school, however, we have made the decision that when he completes school here, which will be in a couple of years, we will return to the UK as a family, and enroll my son at school to do his G.C.S.E's. I am very aware that he may possibly need some outside tutoring to enable him to do this, and am quite prepared to get this extra help for him. My thinking in doing all of this is that he will then have qualifications which are more recognisable than the Turkish school diploma, my son has always said that he wants to attend college and university in the UK (and learn to drive there funnily enough!) and also it will improve his job prospects.
Having said all of that, there have been advantages for my son living here. The climate has completely cleared his eczema, which blighted his life from birth until we moved here, he is now fluent in 2 languages and keen to learn another, and he has also become very self confident, and more of a leader, whereas in the UK, he was a follower.