An award-winning Turkish visual designer based in Los Angeles has helped increase American tourist numbers to his homeland by 30 percent thanks to a strategic advertising campaign.

“Bringing tourists to Turkey is not only possible by taking the photos of the Maiden’s Tower, Ephesus and Ölüdeniz and advertising them in Times Square and The New York Times,” visual designer Emrah Yücel recently told Anatolia news agency. “A strategy is necessary behind this activity; it is necessary to know American people. We pay attention to give the right message in right times.”

Yücel won a job tendered by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and began a poster campaign earlier this year that used visuals resembling Hollywood movie posters to increase the number of U.S. visitors to Turkey from 100,000 to 130,000 over the previous year, according to official ministry data.

The designer, who has worked in Hollywood for many years, said his promotion team attached great importance to Easter and Thanksgiving, which are very important to Americans, as well as April 23 Children’s Day.

Dow Chemical Co. (DOW), the largest U.S. chemicals manufacturer, and Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii (AKSA) AS, a Turkish maker of synthetic acrylic fibers, are in talks to form a joint venture to make carbon fiber and derivatives, the companies said.

Dow and Istanbul-based Aksa signed an accord to “examine opportunities to develop and market a broad range of products and technical service offerings in the carbon fiber-based composites industry,” the companies said today in a statement.

The manufacturers will work on products aimed at “increasing the energy capture of wind turbines, improving the fuel economy of automobiles, and extending the life of roads and buildings,” Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive officer of Midland, Michigan-based Dow, said in the statement.

Mehmet Oz becomes the eighth Turk to grace the cover of one of the world's most prestigious magazines, Time. The Turkish health guru known as Dr. Oz, who gained fame as the host for on a show on the American TV channel Fox, has become the eighth Turk to grace the cover of one of the world's most prestigious magazines, Time.

Time's cover this week features Dr. Oz examining himself as a patient for an article he wrote about lessons he learned from his own cancer scare.

In the article, Oz tells about his fear of his colon cancer. Built by the 50th day of age during a colon cancer check-up suspicion arose, and then spent by the operation of self, said:

"I am a famous doctor. I give advice to millions of people. I am proud of being a good doctor and a good family man, but in fact I had been a bad patient,” he said.