Sulutəpə (also, Sulutepe or Sulu Tepe) is a settlement in Baku,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

. The settlement forms part of the municipality of

Biləcəri Biləcəri (also, Baku, Baladjary, Biläcäri, Baladžary, and Baladzhary) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called th ...

Binəqədi raion Binəqədi raion (also, Binagadi, Binagady, Binaghad, and Bonogady) is a raion in Baku, Azerbaijan. The rayon has a population of 240,800, of which 112,000 is in the municipality. Binagadi district (former Kirov region) is located in Baku adminis ...

. It is an unofficial township built up in the 1980s by rural migrants and refugees from

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. There is oil there, and oil wells, on the land occupied by residents, ownership being claimed by "Binagadi Oil", which is, in turn, owned by the

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic ( az, Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti), largely known as SOCAR is fully state-owned national oil and gas company headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan. The company produces oil and nat ...

(SOCAR) and the Company "Global Energy Azerbaijan" which is registered in the Virgin Islands. Attempts by the oil company to evict squatters and demolish

illegal construction Illegal construction (also known as illegal building or illegal housing) is construction work (or the result of such) without a valid construction permit. Besides the potential technical hazards on uncontrolled construction sites and in finished ...

have been controversial with residents strongly contesting the oil companies claims. It was reported that on April 17, 2012 a mob of local residents attacked oil company employees demolishing houses and that the employees, in turn, severely beat a local Azeri reporter,

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, while he was filming the incident.

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"Houses Demolished And Journalists Abused In Sulutepe"
YouTube video posted by "Obyektivtv", www.Obyektiv.tv filmed December 14, 2011, audio in English, conversations in Russian, and possibly other languages. Populated places in Baku {{Baku-geo-stub