Ceylanoglu's appointment paves the way for the current head of the army, General Isik Kosaner, to become the top commander of NATO's second-largest military, the broadcaster said, without saying how it obtained the information.
Both posts were left unfilled at the end of the annual Supreme Military Council on August 4 after the government, which traces its roots to an Islamist movement, and the secularist military clashed over who would lead ground forces.
Financial markets weakened last week due to concerns about Turkey's political stability after the Supreme Military Council, chaired by Prime Tayyip Erdogan but dominated by generals, failed to name the two top armed forces jobs after a four-day meeting that ended on August 4.
The promotions process in the secular military was thrown into disarray by investigations into alleged plots by top-ranking officers to undermine the government.
Earlier on Sunday Erdogan had said agreement had been reached with the military on the positions.
Outgoing Chief of General Staff Ilker Basbug and Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul are due to meet President Abdullah Gul, who must approve the appointments, later on Sunday, CNN Turk said.
A statement could be made after Gul gives his approval, or the appointments could be formalized in Monday's Official Gazette, NTV news channel reported.
UNCERTAINTY AND DELAY
Ceylanoglu, 65, had been appointed to the prestigious First Army Command at last week's council. Now, General Hayri Kivrikoglu will take that post, NTV said.
The government and military had broadly agreed on Kosaner's appointment, media reported last week, but it was delayed by uncertainty over who would replace him as head of ground forces.
Hasan Igsiz, had been in line, but he was one of 19 officers summoned last week to testify in an inquiry into a campaign to discredit the ruling AK Party and Islamic groups on the Internet.
That case is one of several criminal investigations into alleged military-linked schemes to force the AK Party out. Generals deny any involvement in such plots.
The military staged three coups between 1960 and 1980 and in 1997 pressured an Islamist-led government to resign.
The army sees itself as the guardian of Muslim Turkey's secular system, but the government has curbed its powers through reforms to support Turkey's bid to join the European Union.
Erdogan and several other AK Party leaders have pasts steeped in political Islam, and relations with the military have been tense ever since the party came to power in 2002.
The AK Party denies a secret Islamist agenda and depicts itself as a Muslim version of Europe's conservative Christian Democrat parties.
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