ISTANBUL  - Kurdish separatists are claiming responsibility for a fire at a warehouse of a major Turkish electronics manufacturer that caused millions of dollars of damage.

Reuters reported today that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) set fire Monday to a Beko Elektronik warehouse in Beylikduzu, outside Istanbul,.

According to a ranking Beko official, damage from the fire was more than $5 million and between 30,000 and 35,000 products were lost -- around half of them television sets.

Beko is a subsidiary of industrial group Koc Holding. Last year the company made more than six million TVs, making it one of the top producers in Europe, Reuters said.

The PKK has engaged in armed battles for an ethnic homeland since 1984.