On 6 January 1907 Tuqay left madrassah, as his fee permitted him to live independently, and settled in a hotel room. He became an actual editor of "Uqlar", being the lead poet and publicist of all Motíğí's periodicals. That time liberal "Fiker" and Tuqay himself was in confrontation with Qadimist, i.e. ultraconservative "Bayan al-Xaq", which even called for pogrom of liberal press activists. However, that year he was surprisingly discharged, as the result of the conflict with Kamil Motíğí and instigation of the typography workers for a strike to raise a salary. On 22 February 1907 Motíğí was deprived of publishing rights and his publishers was sold to merchant, who attracted Tuqay to the work again, but sonly dismissed the periodicals.