Özalp (Kurdish: Qerqelî[2]) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.

[5] Abdulkadir Çelik was appointed Kaymakam by president Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in August 2019.

[6] However Almaç was dismissed in November 2019[7] and Çelik appointed as well as the trustee of the municipality of Özalp.

[8] There are 58 neighbourhoods in Özalp District:[9] Özalp has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dsb),[10] with very warm, dry summers and very cold, snowy winters.

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