Sulutəpə

Sulutepe (Azerbaijani: Sulutəpə, also spelled Sulu Tepe) is a settlement in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The settlement forms part of the municipality of Bilajary in Binagadi raion.

[2] It is an unofficial township built up in the 1980s by rural migrants and refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Attempts by the oil company to evict squatters and demolish illegal construction have been controversial with residents strongly contesting the oil companies claims.

[3][4][5] 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, Idrak Abbasov, while he was filming the incident.