On October 23, 2011, a strong earthquake (Mw=7.1) struck Van (Eastern Turkey) region and its surrounding areas at 10:41:22 UTC (hereafter referred to as Van earthquake), causing severe damage to the source region. Several studies have been carried out on the focal mechanism, seismic moment, focal depth, and rupture model of this earthquake. However, there are still significant differences in the moment release, focal depth and slip asperities among these models. Since most of these models only used a single dataset to investigate the source parameters, the reliability of these results is still a concern. In order to make clear the uncertainties and provide a reliable detailed rupture model for the main shock, we investigate the rupture process of the Van earthquake by a joint inversion of teleseismic broadband seismograms, near field static GPS displacement records and strong motion data. The inversion results indicate that the main shock is dominated by a thrust slip with a small part of left-lateral strike-slip component below the hypocenter. The rupture initiated at a focal depth of 16 km and propagated to the surface with a relatively low average rupture velocity of ~ 1.8 km/s, suggesting that the major energy of the earthquake could be released in long period band, which is the main reason why the seismic moments inverted by long period or static signals are higher than those obtained by short period data. Most of slip occurred around the hypocenter with the maximum slip of more than 3.3 m, and the associated * Yong Zheng, corresponding author, Email: zhengyong@whigg.ac.cn static stress drop is ~3 MPa. The total seismic moment of the whole fault is 5.76×10 19 N·m, and most energy was released in the first 20 s, which is in the variation range of the released rupture models. The major slip is concentrated in the deeper depth, and extends to the depth around 25 km; meanwhile, the rupture in the ground surface is quite small, which explains why only weak ruptures observed at the surface caused by such a strong earthquake.