Özalp is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,430 km2, and its population is 59,851 (2022). In the local elections of March 2019 Yakup Almaç from the Peoples ' Democratic Party was elected mayor(HDP). Abdulkadir Çelik was appointed Kaymakam by president Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in August 2019. However Almaç was dismissed in November 2019 and Çelik appointed as well as the trustee of the municipality of Özalp. Following his appointment as a trustee, he dismissed also 28 municipality workers.

Composition

There are 58 neighbourhoods in Özalp District:

Climate

Özalp has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsb), with very warm, dry summers and very cold, snowy winters.