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THE CYPRUS BRANCH OF “ITTIHAT VE TERAKKI CEMIYETI”
Zihni Imamzade gives us the following information about the activities of the “Ittihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti” (ITC) (Unity and Progress Association) of the Ottoman Empire in Cyprus: “The first activity on the island was the inauguration of the “Ittihat ve Terakki Kulubu” (The Unity and Progress Club) in 1909 in Paphos. Djemal Has Bey, originally a native of Paphos who emigrated to Istanbul when he was young and who was a Financial Inspector in Istanbul, kept his contact with his friends back in Paphos and registered his fellow townsmen to this organization when they came to Istanbul for higher education. He helped the university students to establish a branch of the Association in Paphos with the support of the pro-ITC teachers.
Among the founders of the club, which started its activities in 1909 in Paphos in a room on the second floor of a shop of a G/C, named Yerui, were Hafuz Ramadan, Dr.Eyyup Necmeddin and advocate Hulus Bey who later became a judge. The Paphos Club had 27 official members and in the Scala branch, the Kenan brothers, Orundalizade and a lot of other personalities from Tuzla were members. Among the members of the Club opened in Nicosia were Advocate Hafiz Djemal, Shevki Bey from Famagusta, Hasan Hamit, Huseyin Bey, Fadil Korkut and Raik Bey.
Ahmet Raik Bey, brother of Fadil Bey and one of the founders of the Nicosia Terakki Club, spoke on a literary evening on 21 August 1909, citing the constitution of the club which said: “The reason why we established this club under the name of Progress was to work for the enlightenment of our community by publishing and disseminating the progressive ideas.”
According to Imamzade, one of the objectives of the ITC was to prepare rebellions and revolts on the lost Ottoman territories and to make a policy of regaining these territories back to the Ottoman Empire. The education of cadres and disseminating them among the old subjects of the empire were their aim. That’s why the teachers, who were ITC members, were sent to Cyprus from Turkey to teach at the only Turkish Cypriot secondary school in Nicosia.

http://www.cyaf.org/download/2005/Ahmet ... #_ednref21

Who divided and ruled them? Natural flow of history or?... Young Turks aka Sabattean "Turks"? but the aim of Young Turks couldn't be to make a policy of regaining these territories back to the Ottoman Empire ...