Editing Van, Turkey (section)

== Demographics ==
At the end of 2024 the population figure for the city of Van was 522 885 (Ipekyolu, Tusba),<ref name=citypop/> but former Mayor Burhan Yengun is quoted as saying it may be as high as 600,000.<ref>TESEV. "An Assessment of the Van Action Plan for the Internally Displaced" Accessed at http://www.tesev.org.tr/UD_OBJS/PDF/DEMP/TESEV_VanActionPlanReport.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011054228/http://www.tesev.org.tr/UD_OBJS/PDF/DEMP/TESEV_VanActionPlanReport.pdf|date=2010-10-11}}</ref> The former Van Central (''Merkez'') District stretched over 1,938.14&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, but has subsequently been split into two new districts ([[İpekyolu]] and [[Tuşba]]).<ref>see article on [[Van Province]], particularly section on component districts.</ref> Today, Van has a [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] majority and [[Turkish people|Turkish]] minority.<ref name="Ozoglu">{{cite journal|last=Özoğlu|first=Hakan|date=May 1996|title=State–Tribe Relations: Kurdish Tribalism in the 16th-and 17th-Century Ottoman Empire|journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies|publisher=Taylor & Francis|volume=23|issue=1|pages=5–27|doi=10.1080/13530199608705620}}</ref>