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.
His demise comes a day before anniversary of what writers call "post-modern coup".
Feb. 28 was the fourth military intervention in politics, preceded by the ones in 1960, 1971 and 1980 and it is regarded as "post-modern coup". Not only were fatal blows dealt to fundamental rights and freedoms after Feb. 28 but also democracy and the rule of law were suspended.
The coup introduced a series of harsh restrictions on religious life, with an unofficial but widely practiced ban on the use of the headscarf. The military was purged of members with any ties to religious groups, a tradition still widely observed today. In addition, a number of newspapers were closed.
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.
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