Ministers don't matter either, it's as simple as that. Turkey is such a country.
What is Hagia Sophia for God's sake...it should either be demolished or remain a church. It is the fault of Fatih Sultan Mehmet.
According to Islam, you should not touch the place of worship of Christians, if you are a conqueror, you can demolish it if you want.
You are 100% right about the matter regarding how Islam and even prophet Muhammad pbuh prohibited the act of either
converting the places of worship of other religions into mosques or
destorying them
the mian problem isnt in the rule that Islam imposed but the narrative. The narrative you are stating is the European narrative that is brainwashing the people; under such narrative, the Turks are invaders and illegally occupied the lands belonging to the Byzantine empire. Therefore, by Islam's rules, Haghia Sophia shouldnt be converted to a mosque and Turks should get the hell out from the land known as "Turkey" nowadays
However, the truth is that the Turks at the time, under the banner of the Ottomans, werent invaders but liberators as they introduced the true religion of God which is supported by both a saying from prophet Muhammad: "and open costantinopole" which translates to "introduce the religion of God" as well as the fact that many Byzantine officers converted to Islam and joined the Ottoman state at the time
Finally, Sultan Mehmid II when he liberated Costantinopole
bought the Haghia Sophia mosque from the Christians at the time; therefore, it is 100% legal for it to be a mosque
What the Westerners are trying to do involves 3 main things
1- Eliminate proper Turkish history and portraying them as invaders
2- Protecting iconic & historical Christian sites that the Christians legally lost
3- Eliminating and portraying the Islamic religion as a one of barbarian way of life
Dont fall to the Western trap since if we want to talk about places of worship, then before talking about Haghia Sophia, we should talk about the thousands of Ottoman mosques in Europe which had been converted into Churches after the Ottoman state fell but nope... the Christians just want to remove any ounce of either Turkish or Islamic vicotry from history and one of this was the Haghia Sophia mosque
That is why when Erdogan converted it into a mosque, I supported that so that Europe knows that what belongs to the Turks should have its fate decided by the Turks and not some wannabes from Europe. If they want it as a mosque then so be it and if they want it as a museum then so be it and the Haghia Sophia mosqueshould be a sign of Turkish success and not for it to be closed just to satisfy some Westerners inferiority complex