 Customs officials and policemen inspected the equipment in the ship for ten days, and then allowed the ship to leave the port.
"Atlantic Cruiser", the ship which has been kept waiting in Iskenderun Port as suspected of carrying weapons to Syria, departed from the port late on Friday.
The Antigua & Barbuda-flagged "Atlantic Cruiser" has been in Turkey's southern Iskenderun since April 18.
The ship's Ukrainian captain presented the cargo manifest which included 313 tons on civilian-purpose explosives, fuse and capsules destined for six different Turkish receivers as well as a separate pack of 31-ton civilian-purpose explosives headed for Croatia.
The list also shows the ship carried 68 tons of oil-refinery equipment for Russia as well as 945 tons of parts of a coal plant project bound for Syria's Tartus port.
Customs officials and policemen inspected the equipment in the ship for ten days, and then allowed the ship to leave the port. "Atlantic Cruiser" left for Syros Port of Greece.
A German news magazine argued that "Atlantic Cruiser" was carrying Iranian weapons to Syria.
"The ship, weighing 6,200 tons, was carrying weapons and ammunition to Tartus, Syria with the aim of arming President Bashar al-Assad's forces," it said.
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