You could say Turkey is more than ready.

Turkey has been planning to stage the Games for three decades since the Turkish Parliament passed an "Olympic law" in April 1992.

The legislation saw the establishment of the Istanbul Olympic Preparation and Organisation Council (IOBC) in the hope of bringing the Games to Turkey.

Under the rules, a five-person Executive Board must meet at least once a week with a Preparatory Committee given the responsibility of determining the areas where the Games will be held and evaluating any potential facilities that need to be built.

Once the Games have concluded, the IOBC Board is dissolved one month after the Closing Ceremony.

But after a 30-year period which has included several attempts to secure the Games only to be denied by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the IOBC still remains in place with the same big ambitions.

Having seen so many bids fail, you would have expected Turkey’s hopes to have been extinguished but the country’s dream continues to burn bright with Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu announcing last year that it was launching a bid to host the 2036 Olympics.

Speaking to Turkish Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoğlu, who chairs the IOBC, over breakfast in Konya earlier this week, he insisted the nation’s Government still had a hunger to stage the Games but it was up to the IOC to make the call.

"Turkey is ready for any kind of organisation including the Olympics," said Kasapoğlu.

"But we know how it works.

"We do our job and we let them decide so we don’t demand much anymore, they should demand us.

"There are many different approaches.

"We are ready for everything.

"But we will not follow up.

"They should follow up on it because we did our job, we prepared everything.

"If we need to develop more, we can do that as well."

Istanbul has a long history of bidding for the Olympics, entering the race for the first time in 1993 in a bid to win the 2000 Games rights only to lose in the first round with seven votes as Sydney triumphed.

It expressed interest again four years later but failed to make the ballot for the 2004 Olympics which went to Athens.

Another bid was made for the 2008 edition with Istanbul making it to round two before losing with nine votes as Beijing clinched victory.

Istanbul was also among nine cities to submit bids for the 2012 Olympics but it was not accepted as one of the five candidate cities by the IOC as London won the rights.

Turkey’s best effort came when it bid for the 2020 Games, beating Madrid in a run-off vote to make the final stage of the election.

But Tokyo came out on top in the second round, polling 60 votes as Istanbul fell short with 36.

The defeat at the IOC Session in Buenos Aires in Argentina in 2013 would have been a tough pill to swallow but it appears to have only fuelled Turkey’s ambitions even further to achieve its long-held dream.

Such is Turkey’s bidding habit, it also tabled a proposal for the 2026 Winter Olympics but the Erzurum bid was not invited to the candidature stage as Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo secured the hosting rights.

Turkey was not involved in discussions for the 2032 Summer Olympics as Brisbane was named as the host city under the IOC’s new system.

The IOC now engages in targeted approaches with selected countries as opposed to traditional bidding races, with its Future Host Commission identifying and proposing a preferred candidate to the Executive Board.

Konya Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay blames "political reasons" for the IOC’s decision not to previously take the Games to Turkey but concedes that the country is guilty of not promoting itself enough internationally.

"If people visited Turkey and experience and see it they would probably be convinced that it should host the Olympics," said Altay.

Altay is hoping Konya can form part of Istanbul’s bid having been named as the "World Capital of Sport 2023" by ACES Europe in March this year.

Konya is also currently playing host to more than 4,000 athletes from 54 nations for the Islamic Solidarity Games - the first time the multi-sport event has been staged in Turkey.

Judging by the facilities used for the Games including a new Olympic velodrome that is being tipped as a training venue for Paris 2024, Turkey has the sporting infrastructure to match its will.

Turkey looks set to face competition from Indonesia for the 2036 Olympics, while Britain is also weighing whether to enter the race after the British Olympic Association chair Sir Hugh Robertson held talks with IOC President Thomas Bach.

Veli Ozan Çakır, chair of the IOBC Executive Board, hopes Istanbul’s past bidding experience will help boost their hopes.

"We learned about the new agenda for the IOC which I found very correct and very good for the cities to get benefit from the Games and not spend too much money," said Çakır.

"We have this experience for the next bidding for Istanbul so I am sure we will have a very good technical bid, very good objectives and will fit with the IOC's views."

Çakır claims the IOBC is putting together its "best" plan yet to stage the Games and hopes persistency will finally pay off.

"It's our dream and I hope Istanbul will host the Olympic Games in 2036," said Çakır.

"As a Turkish person I have always wanted to see the Olympic Games in Turkey and Istanbul is the best destination for it.

"I am not the decision maker for this but as a technical person I am sure that with the experience of previous events Istanbul is ready for hosting the Olympic Games and I am sure it will succeed."