 By June 2017, when the village was visited by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev 50 houses and a school had been built, the access road was paved and a gas supply re-established.Reports in September 2017 suggest that villagers have continued to return to the village since then with a further 100 houses under construction.Cocuq Mərcanlı is currently the only village of the Jabrayil District effectively controlled by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.