Will Turkey soon join the ranks of candidate countries for the Summer Games in 2032? Possible. According to Hasan Arat (pictured above), the vice-president of the Turkish National Olympic Committee, Istanbul should enter the race. “ I believe Turkey should not give up its ambition to host the Olympic Games, he explained to the Anadolu news agency. It should even declare for the Games in 2032. Istanbul is ready. Turkey would have deserved to get the 2020 Olympic Games.” As a reminder, the Turkish capital was beaten by Tokyo in the second round of voting (60 votes to 36). Since then, Turkey has no longer expressed any intention of applying for the Games again, but Hasan Arat, who led the Istanbul 2020 project, believes that the time has come to restart the process. According to him, the majority of infrastructure projects presented in the bid file for the 2020 Games have been completed, including the Marmaray-Istanbul intercontinental railway line and Istanbul airport, officially opened on October 29, 2018. Vodafone Park in Istanbul, the stadium of the Beşiktaş team, was completed in 2016. It has 42.000 seats. “ Turkey should keep its dreams. The 2032 goal is not too late, time flies”, suggests Hasan Arat.
