After more than a decade in power, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is now heading for another election. In this period of political power, which is exceptional in Turkey's electoral history, the ruling party has won nine elections in a row and made significant reforms in its 13 years of political power. Despite iconoclastic reforms in the economy, society, health and democracy, especially in a country used to postponing the resolution of its major problems for decades, Turkey is going to the polls debating its most serious problems, which can be summarized as follows:

l Resolution of the Kurdish question

l Making of a new constitution

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East

Economic stagnation

Transition from an economy of investment to one of production

Although decades are not long periods of time for a country's lifetime, they are for governments. Like most analysts interpreting the AK Party's success after each election, we also said that a politics of service and performance lay behind the AK Party's electoral success. Reformations in health, transportation, social policies, benefits and democracy, accompanied by a successful foreign policy that lasted at least until the Syrian civil war, and economic rapprochements with neighboring countries, constituted the principal items of the ruling party's service and performance.Being aware of its sources of success, the AK Party always comes before the electorate with promises of new services and investments. Even before the local elections held immediately after the attempted coups of Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013, the ruling party endeavored to display its history of service to the people.

Regarding its political strategy for its second decade, I believe it is clear that Turkish society has already taken the services and performances realized by the AK Party for granted. All those daunting investments, including great highways, bridges, public buildings, airports, Bosphorus metro tunnels, roads crossing the country from north to south and east to west, hospital complexes, irrigation channels, mining corporations, immense energy structures and conduits, dams and oil treaties with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, are all now taken by the people as normal and usual. Thus, their demands for the second decade appear to be on a whole new level. If the ruling party realizes this change of mentality amongst the electorate and develops its policies accordingly, then we will most probably witness the second decade of AK Party political power.

So, what are these new demands?

1. Economy of production: The Turkish people believe that the state has completed, in general, its infrastructural investments and that it should now focus more on the economy of production by prioritizing private investments in industry, technology and agriculture. In this respect, ongoing dazzling advances in technology enable the surprising emergence of new expert companies in computer technologies, which in turn boost immense economic growth. Thus, the AK Party should develop a particular stratagem for possible opportunities from such a vibrant sector.2. The rejuvenation of city economies: Up to today, municipal economies have maintained their economic vitality through the share of income formed from the state's investments in construction. Yet this wealth does not spread throughout society. In a similar vein, taking cities' urban transformation, industry, tourism and service sector planning into the center will assist in the strengthening of the middle classes. This would mean an exciting transition from the enrichment of the state to that of each and every citizen.

3. Democracy: Finally, it is a manifested necessity that the democratic atmosphere that can preserve such a spirit of change should be strengthened and institutionalized.

For the second decade, such a change of mentality through adopted economic changes accomplished by the government would mean that the ruling political party successfully reads global dynamics and developments. This, I believe, is also the general expectation of the people for the next decade.