Necmettin Erbakan, former prime minister of Turkey and leader of the Felicity Party (SP), who died in Ankara on Sunday will be laid to rest in Istanbul on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is currently in Germany, postponed his visit to Brussels to attend funeral of Erbakan.
Meanwhile a funeral prayer was performed in the Netherlands in Erbakan's absence. About 300 people from the Netherlands will leave for Istanbul to attend funeral of Erbakan.
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.