ISTANBUL - The body of former prime minister and chairman of the Felicity Party (SP) Necmettin Erbakan was brought from Ankara to Istanbul in a private jet on Tuesday.
A funeral will take place at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul for the late Erbakan on Tuesday.
The funeral is expected to be attended by thousands of people from all corners of Turkey.
Following the funeral, Erbakan will be laid to eternal rest in Istanbul.
Erbakan passed away on Sunday due to heart failure.
Erbakan served as the prime minister in a coalition government formed in 1996 by his Welfare Party (RP) and the True Path Party. In 1997, Turkey’s top prosecutor charged the RP with being "a focal point for anti-secular activities" and he was forced to step down as the premier the same year.
The party was shutdown by the country’s Constitutional Court in January 1998, and the court banned Erbakan from politics for a period of five years.
Erbakan was charged in a case publicly came to be known in Turkey as "the Missing Trillion" and convicted of fraud in party records and hiding millions in cash reserves ordered to be seized after the RP was closed down. Court sentenced him to prison for 2 years and four months in March 2002.
His sentence was later commuted to home confinement before he was pardoned by Turkish President Abdullah Gul for health reasons in August 2008.