Is there a way to prevent a tab from being selected/unloaded on the Kendo tabstrip?

Is there a way to prevent a tab from being selected (or unloaded) on the Kendo tabstrip?

We have something like this:

<kendo-tabstrip (tabClose)="onClose($event)" class="tabs-content" 
[keepTabContent]="isTabContentKept" (tabSelect)="onTabSelect($event)">

For example if the form is dirty, when the user clicks on another tab in the kendo-tabstrip we would like to prevent user from going to the tab.