Necmettin Erbakan (born October 29, 1926, Sinop – died February 27, 2011, Ankara) is a Turkish engineer, academician, politician and the founder of the Milli Gorus ideology. He served as deputy prime minister and prime minister. He served as Prime Minister from 28 June 1996 to 30 June 1997. He was forced to resign after the February 28 process and was banned from politics for 5 years. He was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison in the Lost Trillion Case.
He was born as the eldest of four children of Sinop Kadı Deputy Mehmet Sabri and Kamer Hanım. His mother's side is Circassian, and his father's side is based on the Kozanoğlu Principality, which ruled in the Kozan, Saimbeyli and Tufanbeyli regions of Adana at the end of the 19th century. Although he started his primary education in Kayseri, he completed it in Trabzon due to his father's appointment. He graduated from Istanbul High School for Boys, where he started his secondary education in 1937, with the first place in 1943. Although she was entitled to enter the university without an exam, she chose to take the exam. In 1943, the year Erbakan started his education, the Graduate School of Engineering, which had a six-year education period, was transformed into a university, and its name was changed to Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and the education period was reduced to five years. For this reason, Erbakan started his education from the 2nd grade together with the students who started school before him. Among the semester students at the Technical University were Süleyman Demirel from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Turgut Özal from the Faculty of Electricity. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Machinery in 1948. In the same year, he became an assistant at the "Motors Chair" (1948-1951). During this period, Prof. Dr. He gave motor lessons with Selim Palavan.
He completed his doctorate at RWTH Aachen (Aachen Technical University) in Germany, where he was sent by the university in 1951. Klockner was invited to the Humboldt Deutz AG engine factory. At the DVL Research Center, which conducts research for the German army, Prof. Dr. He worked with Schmidt. He served as chief engineer on the engine design of the Leopard 1 tank. He drew the combustion chamber of the engine himself. He earned his doctorate at German universities.
He returned to Turkey in 1953 to give his associate professorship exam. In 1954, at the age of 27, he became an associate professor at ITU. He went back to Germany's Deutz factories for six months to do research. He did his military service between May 1954 and October 1955. He returned to university again. He founded Gümüş Motor, which would produce the first domestic engine with 1956 partners between 1963 and 200, and realized engine production. He received the title of professor in 1965. In 1967, he was elected as the general secretary of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB). In the same year, she married Nermin Erbakan (1943-2005), who served as her secretary at TOBB. He had three children from this marriage (Zeynep, born 1968; Elif, born 1974 and Fatih, born 1978).
During this period, he drew attention with his defense of Anatolia's merchants and small industrialists against big industrialists and merchants. On May 25, 1969, he was elected as the general chairman of TOBB. But he had to leave the presidency on August 8, 1969, when the Justice Party government canceled the elections.
On January 19, 2011, he was taken under intensive care at the hospital due to recurrent vasculitis in his foot, treated for a while and discharged, and after a short time he was discharged from the Güven Hospital in Ankara, where he was hospitalized due to respiratory and heart failure, despite all the treatments administered under the intensive care unit. Due to multiple organ failure, he lost consciousness as a result of coronary artery disease during the examination of his doctors at 27 in the morning of 2011 February 08.50 and fell into a coma. He died at the age of 11.40, despite all the interventions of the doctors supporting his vital functions.
An official state ceremony was not organized in accordance with his will, and on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, after the funeral prayer was performed at the Hacı Bayram Mosque in Ankara, his corpse was brought to Istanbul and after the funeral prayer at the Fatih Mosque after the noon prayer, Merkezefendi, Zeytinburnu Merkezefendi. He was buried next to his wife Nermin Erbakan, who had passed away before, in the family cemetery in the Cemetery. His grave is sprinkled with lands brought from various regions of Turkey by his loved ones, as well as lands brought from Jerusalem, TRNC and Bosniak leader Aliya İzzetbegovic's grave.
President, Speaker of the Parliament, Prime Minister, General Chairs, Ministers, Deputies, Members of the Turkish Armed Forces, Ambassadors, Mayors and party members, as well as community and movement leaders and representatives from 60 countries attended the funeral, the funeral prayer was performed by more than two million people and their bodies were buried in the cemetery. He was buried in Merkezefendi Cemetery.