Özalp () is a municipality and
district
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of
Van Province
Van Province (, , Armenian: Վանի մարզ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. Its area is 20,921 km2, and its population is 1,128,749 (2022). ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 1,430 km
2, 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
Kaymakam, also known by #Names, many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been reta ...
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
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in Özalp District:
* Aksorguç
* Altınboğa
* Aşağıakçagül
* Aşağıbalçıklı
* Aşağıkoçkıran
* Aşağımollahasan
* Aşağıtulgalı
* Aşağıyorganlı
* Bağrıaçık
* Bodurağaç
* Boğazkesen
* Boyaldı
* Çamurlu
* Çavuşlar
* Çırakköy
* Çubuklu
* Cumhuriyet
* Dağdeviren
* Damlacık
* Dönerdere
* Dorutay
* Eğribelen
* Emek
* Eski Emek
* Gözdeğmez
* Gültepe
* Günyüzlü
* Hacıali
* Hacıkışlak
* Hazine
* İstasyon
* Kalecik
* Kargalı
* Karlıyamaç
* Kaşıkara
* Kırkçalı
* Mahmudiye
* Mehmetalan
* Mollatopuz
* Oymaklı
* Sağmalı
* Sarıköy
* Savatlı
* Şehittepe
* Şemsettin
* Seydibey
* Sugeçer
* Tepedam
* Yarımkaya
* Yavuzlar
* Yukarıayazca
* Yukarıbalçıklı
* Yukarıçavdarlık
* Yukarımollahasan
* Yukarıtulgalı
* Yukarıyorganlı
* Yumruklu
* Yürkuşak
Climate
Özalp has a dry-summer
humid continental climate
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(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
: ''Dsb''), with very warm, dry summers and very cold, snowy winters.
See also
*
Muğlalı incident
References
Populated places in Van Province
Districts of Van Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
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