Is it easy for children to live in turkey if they don't know how to read and write in that language.?

depends on their ages.. if they are going to school, then they should read and write turkish unless you send them to a british or american school only for foreigners. probably there is a school for the kids of army officers in incirlik base.

hmm if they're older kids actually, it would only be a problem if they went to the same schools with natives. there are schools for only foreigners, where they have different curriculum and these schools are not related to ministry of education.

but if they speak turkish there should be no problem for them with writing. turkish is the only language written exactly like it is spoken. i guess that makes it easier to write. plus the alphabet is latin. and they're not little kids, i think they'll catch up quickly. the only thing is, the curriculum in turkish schools is harder than that in many countries, esp than america and europe. so they may have problems until they adapt to their schools. turkish literature lessons may be hard for your 13 year old kid, since there are lots of grammar rules. so you may consider sending them to schools for foreigner kids. at least for the first years. i had foreigner friends, or half turkish friends, from these schools, in general their curriculums are easier than ministry's curriculum. but i guess your kids are half turkish, and you said they already know turkish, so there's no reason for them to fail.

all the best to your family!

My local language is Serbian, so I can appreciate more often than not the entire South Slavic languages and a little bit of Russian. I was once taught English, German, Spanish and Latin at college, despite the fact that I are not able to relatively talk Latin seeing that this is a useless language in spite of everything. Now I simply desire to study Norwegian.

first it's a good begining that they can speak and understand it oraly but they must start to learn how to write and read it .or it will b hard to comunicate with turkish comunity.

big kiss for your children from me.