Since most Turks are urban nowadays (73% in 2015 according to the World Bank & every other reputable source of numbers gives something similar) I think the 'rural' is incorrect. A lot of Erdogan's support comes from places like Kayseri - a manufacturing city of a million or so people, deep in the Anatolian interior. Religiously & socially conservative, but not exactly rural. The city has 80% of the population of the province. Erdogan got 66% of the vote in 2014.
Fair enough. Rural may have been an oversimplification.
There were a couple of other interesting points came out of the show (and here again, one does have to be careful making broad generalizations out of individual interviews).
According to one people smuggler interviewed, the close down of the people smuggling into Greece has occurred, not because of the deal (and monetary payment) between Germany and Turkey, but because of the close of the Macedonian border. Essentially, if they can't get through to the more prosperous western/ northern European countries, they're not interested in paying for the trip. Staying in Turkey is regarded as better.
That does accord with the Australian experience of the benefit of taking the candy off the table, even if it does some damage to the Eurocrats' dream of a unified Europe.
The other came from a sequence showing what Turkey is doing to settle many/ some Syrian refugees on a seemingly permanent basis. These people showed considerable gratitude to Erdogan. There was a hint that this might be a way for him to bolster his majority; although the question of the Turkish citizenship and voting rules wasn't explored..
