State ceremony to be held for late Turkish President Demirel

Former Turkish Prime Minister and President Süleyman Demirel, who passed away at the age of 90 early on June 17, will be laid to rest in his hometown of ?slamköy in Turkey's south after a state ceremony in the capital on June 19. 

A state ceremony will be held for Demirel, the seven-time prime minister and ninth president, at parliament in Ankara on June 19, after which his body will be sent to the southern province of Isparta's ?slamköy village to be buried on June 20, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Demirel's body will be taken from his house on Güniz Street, located in the Tunal? neighborhood of Ankara, at 8 a.m. on June 19, and brought to the Turkish parliament for the state ceremony that will be held between 9 and 9:45. 

Demirel will lie in state in front of the parliament's Gate of Honor, where two speeches will be delivered in honor of the former president, one from his family and one from the state.
 
Demirel's body will be taken to the Kocatepe Mosque on a gun carriage travelling through the streets on a cortege, which will be escorted by the Presidential Guard Regiment. 

After the funeral prayer, Demirel's body will be flown to Isparta by a military airplane and transferred to Çalcatepe in ?slamköy, where he will be laid to rest on June 20, Aylin Cesur, Demirel's doctor, said June 18 in front of Demirel's house in Ankara. 

"President [Demirel] will be laid to rest in Çalcatepe, where a mausoleum will later be built. His wife, Nazmiye Demirel, will be transferred next to him with an arrangement that will be made later," said Cesur. 

Nazmiye Demirel passed away in May 2013 after fighting Alzheimer's disease for several years. She is buried at a family graveyard in ?slamköy, which is also her...